From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1966             LONDON —  The Beach Boys, crowning the re-emergence of American artists in the British charts following the domination by British talent since 1963, by astonishingly beating the Beatles in the annual reader poll conducted by the 250,000 circulation U. K. consumer pop weekly, … Continue reading IT’S BEACH BOYS OVER BEATLES: U.K. READER POLL . . . DECEMBER 10, 1966