Premise: Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as `` rock and roll '' in the United States in the early 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States . The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne , California , in 1961 . The group had over eighty songs chart worldwide , thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits ( the most by an American rock band ) , four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart .
Hypothesis: The Beach Boys was a band in the rock genre.
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