Purple premium weight 100% organic cotton TSPTR raglan sweatshirt with water based ink Peanuts print

In a 1967 interview Brian Wilson quoted Charles Schulz's Peanuts "Happiness is...." aphorism when discussing the Beach Boys' shift from surf / car songs to their masterpiece Pet Sounds. He told the interviewer that "Happiness is a sad song....". If the songs Wilson wrote for Pet Sounds‘ planned follow-up, Smile, were teenage symphonies to God, as he famously said, the songs on Pet Sounds comprise an operetta of teenage disillusionment albeit beautifully packaged.

By the late 60s PEANUTS’ appeal was universal: It was beloved by young and old, by the intelligentsia as well as the masses; While Charles Schulz had existentialist and humanist leanings worthy of Jean-Paul Sartre, his concerns were also that of the youth and especially the recently discovered ‘teenager’. Another California based artist whose concerns very much mirrored those of Schulz was Beach Boy Brian Wilson. In 1966, while the rest of the band was on tour, he wrote and completed what is critically considered to be one of the finest records ever made, Pet Sounds. The complex musical arrangements and lyrics earned Wilson the ‘genius’ tag, deconstructing what is was to be a young person in such turbulent times. The Beach Boys would go on to make a number of records in this period that shared numerous themes with Schulz’s work at the time - ecological concerns, selfcare, mental well being, love and happiness.

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