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Murry Wilson was a foreman at a Goodyear tire manufacturing plant in Hawthorne, California. In early 1945 an industrial accident resulted in a metal rod impaling his left eye. In OTL, he survived and gave his sons Brian, Dennis and Carl a love of music that would eventually lead them to become the Beach Boys.

Let's assume that rod goes just a little deeper in Murry's head and kills him. Although Brian and Dennis are already born, their childhood will be a different one, and they likely won't form a band in 1961. How differently does American pop music turn out without the Beach Boys?
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