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Heroes and VillainsLOCATION: Home , Racine, WIYEAR: 1983TAGS: Christmas, first albumPUBLISHED: February 1, 2008My very first Beach Boys album was their Greatest Hits(Volume 1). It was Christmas 1983 and I was nine years old. It was a simple black cassette, with two sides of hits(California Girls, In My Room, The Girl From New York City, I Get Around and so on). The one that was the most haunting(and beautiful to me) was “Heroes and Villains.” I would listen with my Walkman in the car, on vacation, at soccer games in between playing-most anytime I had a chance. And I would sing along until my parents told me to shut up! It was the first band I really got into and have treasured ever since receiving that single black cassette on Christmas Day, 1983.
“Heroes and Villains,” my father told me, was done around the time that the infamous murderer Charles Manson was hanging around Dennis Wilson at the time. My dad hinted that Manson himself may have penned the song, but wasn’t given any credit. I wasn’t sure to believe him, but Manson’s influence was heard, at least in my mind. The title alone, “Heroes and Villains” told me that the song was about good and evil, and that even in my youthful eyes, Manson was evil(“The Villain”) and the Beach Boys(and Dennis mostly) managed to break free from his influence, and had become the “Heroes.”
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