On May 16, 1966, The Beach Boys released one of the most influential, enduring albums ever made. Pet Sounds was an immediate ...

While carving out incredible tunes was the forte of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys, one album of theirs took a rather unique ...

The deeply emotional track revealed a more vulnerable side the Beach Boys leader ...

Exclusive: As the album celebrates its 60th anniversary, one of The Beach Boys’ surviving original members recalls the moment ...

When you’re making music that no one else is making, you don’t have source material to reference. Musical experimentalists are left to hope the sound they are envisioning works out in the end. That ...

The Beatles' Rubber Soul begat The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, which begat Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In describing the followup to Pet Sounds, Wilson billed Smile as a "teenage symphony to God." He was experimenting with songs like ...

Most artists have earned their place in history for a reason, but that doesn't mean Brian Wilson had to be infatuated with ...

Among his many other distinctions as a songwriter and recording artist, Brian Wilson is responsible for not just one, but two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson performs "Pet Sounds" at the Morris Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in South Bend.

IN the weeks before we lost The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson on June 11 last year, he had two special visitors.  They were the ...

Brian Wilson almost gave away The Beach Boys' Top 40 hit, "Don't Worry, Baby", but his co-writer convinced him to keep it ...