As the Italian proverb says, there's no end to the worst

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Any time I think I've seen the worst, something inconceivably lower and more debased takes place somewhere. Listen to this: "Three of the founding members of the Beach Boys have been unceremoniously dumped midway through their UK tour. Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and David Marks were informed of the news via a statement issued by Mike Love - the band's frontman and Wilson's cousin - that the tour would be continuing without them. Their places will be filled by Bruce Johnston - a second generation member - and a selection of session musicians."

WHAT THE HELL? When the Beatles broke up, it was John Lennon against Paul McCartney and George Harrison - not nice, but it was the big beasts of the group locking horns. Ditto when Creedence Clearwater REvival saw John Fogerty go up against all the others. But here, apart from the senile aspects of the thing, you have the equivalent of Ringo sacking Paul, John and George by e-mail. Mike Love may be the founder in a legal sense, but he never was anything. In anything but the legal sense, the Beach Boys were Brian Wilson. Period. Monkeys have no right to try to sack their organ grinders.

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Being dumped by email is always dreadful.

The rest of the Beatles being dumped by Ringo? Egad. That's a heck of a comparison.