The Beach Boys and The Beatles helped to re-shape pop culture, dominating international charts during the 60s. The two groups had a friendly rivalry - ...

I t's not often that Paul McCartney dares to call a song his favorite. He always has a hard time choosing, even among his own ...

From "Almost Famous" to "American Graffiti" and "Full House," Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys have soundtracked some of ...

When inducting Brian Wilson into the songwriters Hall of Fame, Paul McCartney recalled how Wilson's 'God Only Knows" brought ...

If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect ...

The musical world has lost a giant. Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, has died at age 82.

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions ...

You can’t say the words “The Beach Boys” without instantly conjuring ... over the last six decades and their ubiquitous album, Pet Sounds from 1966, is widely regarded as one of the most ...

In the mid-’60s, Brian Wilson decided to take a step back from touring with The Beach Boys to focus solely on the studio side of things. The end result was Pet Sounds. Effectively a Wilson solo ...

A prime example can be heard on Pet Sounds, specifically the jazz-feel undercurrent of the opener, Wouldn't It Be Nice. As with most Beach Boys dates, Wilson handed out his charts and played the ...

The song, co-penned with Jardine’s longtime collaborator Larry Dvoskin (Sammy Hagar, Bad Company), evokes the Beach Boys’ classic Pet Sounds era, with its reflective ache for an innocence lost ...