Premise: The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne , California , in 1961 . The Beach Boys began as a garage band managed by the Wilsons ' father Murry , with Brian 's increasingly sophisticated songwriting and recording abilities dominating their creative direction . The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed , commercially successful , and widely influential bands of all time . The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide , making them one of the world 's best-selling bands of all time and are listed at No. 12 on Rolling Stone magazine 's 2004 list of the `` 100 Greatest Artists of All Time '' .
Hypothesis: The Beach Boys is not a band.
Label: CONTRADICTION