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Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties split between their early surf car and summer pop and their later hippie counterculture and ambitious rock No other group can claim the Ronettes and the Four Seasons as early 1960s rivals the Mamas and the Papas and Crosby Stills and Nash as later 1960s rivals and the Beatles and the Temptations as decadespanning counterparts