We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

The whole world sees the California Dream to the soundtrack of Beach Boys songs. “If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ ...

From the the carefree sound of California surf music to the sophistication of later darker works, here are five of the top hits penned by influential Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson. The Barron's news ...

Even great commercial success isn’t always enough to convince someone they’re worthy as an artist, as proven by the strange, sad request Brian Wilson had while traveling on the same day that one of ...

Though Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson never shared a co-writing credit on any Beach Boys songs, brother Carl did write several songs with their older brother. “Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” ...

The Beach Boys are back in the top 40 for the first time in over a decade after the recent death of the band’s co-founder Brian Wilson. Billboard reports that the band’s greatest hits album, “Sounds ...

Beach Boys founding member and his wife Melinda talk about their biopic. — -- Through the 1960s, Beach Boys founding member Brian Wilson dreamed up songs of pure pop bliss, such as “I Get Around, ...

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.