Famous Beach Boys Fans

[BananaLouie]

We know The Beach Boys have fans in other fellow bands and musicians like the Beatles especially Paul McCartney and his love for Pet Sounds and Eric Clapton who also loves Pet Sounds. Do you know of any other bands, musical artists or even other celebrities like actors who are known to be Beach Boys fans, do you know what specific songs they like?

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

For anybody who was a member of the old Wheeler board...anybody remember Britney Spears (or more likely, her publicist ) making a couple of appearances on the board, oh about a month or two *before* her first cd came out?

[18thofMay]

We know The Beach Boys have fans in other fellow bands and musicians like the Beatles especially Paul McCartney and his love for Pet Sounds and Eric Clapton who also loves Pet Sounds. Do you know of any other bands, musical artists or even other celebrities like actors who are known to be Beach Boys fans, do you know what specific songs they like?

Foster the People

[The Shift]

Ronald Reagan

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

We know The Beach Boys have fans in other fellow bands and musicians like the Beatles especially Paul McCartney and his love for Pet Sounds and Eric Clapton who also loves Pet Sounds. Do you know of any other bands, musical artists or even other celebrities like actors who are known to be Beach Boys fans, do you know what specific songs they like?

Foster the People

[BananaLouie]

Ronald Reagan

James Watt? 

[Craig Boyd]

Not really famous outside of Scotland but Greg Hemphill is a popular comic actor here (starred in a sitcom called Still Game) and he was at the Brian Wilson concert in Glasgow last year, he tweeted a few jokes about taxi drivers making Charles Manson comments on the way to the gig. Also Iain Lee, a presenter and disc jockey in Britain, I know he's quite a big fan. He done an interview with Brian last year actually which was pretty decent, he got right into talking about Marcella if I remember correctly 

[Mr. Wilson]

Actor Nickolas Cage... Director writer Cameron Crowe. Wolfman Jack.

[drbeachboy]

David Letterman, and of course John Stamos.

[urbanite]

Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.

[BananaLouie]

Drew Barrymore

[TonyW]

downunder:
Sam Neil (actor)
Daniel Johns (silverchair)
HG Nelson (radio & TV opinionist/satirist/comedian)
Damien Lovelock (Celibrate Rifles)
Martin Phillips (The Chills .. kiwi)
Cal Callahan (Riptides/Gangajang ... SMiLE knowledgable)
Stuart Coupe (music reviewer & critic)

[Rocky Raccoon]

Elvis Costello
Jeff Bridges
Zooey Deschanel
Crosby & Nash
Linda Ronstadt
Neil Young
Tom Petty

[MBE]

All of us here!
Mick Jagger
Ray Davies
Keith Moon
Ike Turner (Good Vibrations was his second favorite production ever)
Bob Dylan (in 1987 in Rolling Stone he said they were better than The Beatles and Stones)
Terry Williams (First Edition)
Billy Joel
Elton John
Weird Al
Sean Lennon (lol)

[Mikie]

Dylan - "He ought to donate that ear to the Smithsonian".

[Newguy562]

Questlove(The Roots)
MGMT
Mark Hoppus(Blink 182)
Elton John
Jim Morisson(2nd favorite band after Love)
Thom Yorke(Radiohead)
Daft Punk(Their first  group name was Darlin' & also mentioned the Beach Boys in many interviews.)
Mark McGrath(Sugar Ray)


Pretty that's all i know..
It's so shocking that Daft Punk are BB fans considering they are one of the hugest techno groups ever!!!

[MBE]

David Gilmoure is another fan I just thought of.

[Eric Aniversario]

That Harry Potter guy, can't remember his name.  He digs Smile and Holland.

[buddhahat]

Frodo from Lord Of The Rings
Frank Black of the Pixies
Dave Gilmour

[over and over]

We know The Beach Boys have fans in other fellow bands and musicians like the Beatles especially Paul McCartney and his love for Pet Sounds and Eric Clapton who also loves Pet Sounds. Do you know of any other bands, musical artists or even other celebrities like actors who are known to be Beach Boys fans, do you know what specific songs they like?

Foster the People

"Feeny, a fee fee feeny"

[bossaroo]

Bob Dylan (in 1987 in Rolling Stone he said they were better than The Beatles and Stones)

never saw that. very cool to hear

Ray Davies

any quotes from Ray?

[Beach Boy]

David Lee Roth

Tom Cruise

John Ritter

Ramones

[Andrew G. Doe]

Gary "Doonesbury" Trudeau.
Pete Townshend.
Keith Moon, rest his manic soul.
Roger Daltrey.
Dennis Locorrierre.
James Dean Bradfield.
Nick Lowe.
Dave Edmunds.
Jimmy Buffett.

[meltedwhiskeyinmyhand]

I had heard that Trey from Phish is a pretty big fan but I dont think they've ever covered them. I was at their July 4th show in Georgia a few summers ago and their set break music was the entire Pet Sounds album. It seemed like most people enjoyed it.

[Mikie]

I never read or heard that Dylan said the Beach Boys and Stones were better than the Beach Boys.

You sure he said that??  He musta been real stoned.  Only thing I read that he once said that "Brian should donate that ear to the Smithsonian".

.......And didn't Brian once say that "Dylan put an end to music" (or whatever the statement was).