10 Musicians Whose Careers Were Destroyed By Just One Album

10. Summer In Paradise — The Beach Boys

Pop legends the Beach Boys have a long, storied history which is unfortunately nowhere near as sunny as their famously smooth harmonies.

Between troubled star Dennis' friendship with cult leader/ minor Tarantino villain Charles Manson, his later death by drowning, and brother Brian's publicized issues with mental illness and drug addiction, the story of the influential American pop group is one pockmarked by tragedy at every turn.

One of the most unfortunate spectacles in their late career comes in the form of the flop Summer in Paradise, the album whose failure led to the group's unofficial dissolution.

The only Beach Boys record (in a twenty seven album career) which was created without any involvement from mercurial genius/ troubled songwriter Brian Wilson, Summer In Paradise was an unheralded catastrophe.

Universally maligned upon its release, the album failed to make the US Pop chart, a feat their preceding twenty-six had all pulled off. Released in 1992, it was a disastrous blow to the band when this record couldn’t even shift a meagre one thousand copies upon release.