The 1971 pop song even Leonard Bernstein thought was “too complex to get all of first time around”

The 1971 pop song even Leonard Bernstein thought was “too complex to get all of first time around”Leonard Bernstein may well have been a classical composer, but in the 1960s, he knew all too well that the times had changed and pop music was seizing the cultural mantle. “For a long time now I’ve been fascinated by this strange and compelling scene called pop music,” Bernstein told CBS’s Inside Pop. This free-spirited sense of innovation, according to Bernstein, was typified by the Beach Boys’ classic, ‘Surf’s Up’. It could come only out of the ferment that characterises today’s pop music scene.“ Adding, ”Poetic, beautiful even in its obscurity, ‘Surf’s Up’ is one aspect of new things happening in pop music today.