Endless Summer

Heralded by the release of George Lucas's hit film American Graffiti, which painted an idealized romantic image of early 60s youth culture, this collective yearning for a more innocent time hugely benefited the Beach Boys, whose early work exemplified this era.

Capitol Records were quick to notice this new trend and Rush released a cleverly compiled best of album Endless Summer in 1974.

A selection of the band's material from 62 to 65, it sold more than a million copies and elevated the Beach Boys to a popularity they had hardly known in their heyday.

There's no doubt the compilations were helped by a huge undertow of nostalgia and recycling and return to pre-psychedelic, pre-experimental pop innocence, if you like.

And everybody's going back to that.

It's certainly not just the Beach Boys.

Endless Summer, I suppose, ultimately vindicated the Mike Love camp.

It said, you know, come on, guys, let's just be pragmatic here.