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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-27T11:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "In 1978, 11 years after psychological problems caused Brian Wilson to begin withdrawing from music making, the Beach Boys recorded a Mike Love song called “Brian’s Back.” The track didn’t surface until 1979 (as a single’s B side) and wasn’t widely heard until two decades later, but even if it had been released immediately, the message in its title would have come as old news to anyone who’d heard 1976’s  _15 Big Ones_ and, especially, 1977’s  _The_  _Beach Boys Love You_.\n\nBrian wrote or co-wrote five amiable tracks on the former album, the first Beach Boys release to be …",
  "title": "On the Record: The Beach Boys’ ‘We Gotta Groove,’ plus The Third Mind’s ‘Spellbinder!’"
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