Real People/Real Stories explores the best in nonfiction history, biography, science, nature, and the arts.   

Join us as we discuss Everybody Had an Ocean by William McKeen.

Both the good and the bad of the southern California music scene in the 1960s are detailed in this intriguing social history. The lives and history of bands such as the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, Jan and Dean, Phil Spector, Sam Cooke, Joni Mitchell, and many others are covered as they find success and strife in an era of unbridled sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.