The American equivalent of The Beatles. They were the only band that could rival The Beatles' popularity. Back in the day, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, and they're still surprisingly still active today. With two of the original members, no less...even though they're in their eighties.
While The Beach Boys' popularity waned considerably after the 1970's, they did make a brief comeback in 1988 with the song "Kokomo" and again in 2012 with their 50th anniversary tour. Despite this, they're still not as popular as they once were, for obvious reasons and not so obvious reasons. They're washed up, if you will.
Some of their most popular songs include:
-Surfin' USA
-California Girls
-Don't Worry Baby -The aforementioned "Kokomo"
- God Only Knows
-Good Vibrations
-I Get Around
-And more...
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)