4th of July (Beach Boys song)
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"4th of July" is a song written by Dennis Wilson and Jack Rieley for the American pop band The Beach Boys. It was released on the band's 1993 box set Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys. The song was written in 1970 as a veiled comment on the alleged suppression of the NY Times by the US government. Originally intended for the 1971 Surf's Up album, it was pulled by Dennis after an argument with brother Carl over sequencing the album.