Al Jardine

Living, with his 17 year old twin sons, and their mother, MaryAnn, in Big Sur, California. He works producing artists at the Big Red Barn as well. [June 2006]

Inducted by Elton John into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of The Beach Boys) on 20 January 1988.

Al and the rest of The Beach Boys guest starred on Full House (1987) in 1988 and 1992.

Has four children, all sons. Matthew was born in 1966 and Adam in 1970, from his first marriage to Lynda Sperry. Twins, Andrew and Robert were born in 1986 from his second marriage to Mary Ann.

Al briefly left the group in 1962 after becoming disenchanted with the direction the band was taking. During his separation from the group, he dabbled with a career in the air industry but found it wasn't much to his liking.

He attended Hawthorne High School where he graduated in 1960 and then later went on to attend El Camino College, where he met former high school acquaintance, Brian Wilson. At the time, Brian and his two brothers, Carl and Dennis were harmonizing and forming a musical group and Brian was quick to recruit Al to join. The group would go on to become The Beach Boys.

Al Jardine was born in the summer of 1942 in Lima, Ohio. His parents moved the family to San Francisco, California then to Hawthorne, where they eventually settled permanently.