Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music. The album’s reputation grew over time.

Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session ...

The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should ...

Despite singing about surfing and being endlessly labelled as a surf band, the Beach Boys didn't actually sound anything like other surf rockers like Dick Dale or the Ventures. Pet Sounds ' ...

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

Two "Pet Sounds" highlights, the former featuring envelope-pushing instrumentation and production and the latter, a deceptively complex harmonic structure as well as lyrics that were, at that point, ...

Paul McCartney has described God Only Knows, the album's centrepiece, as the greatest song ever written (it was interesting that his daughter, Stella, should have chosen it as one of her Desert Island ...

Brian Wilson, the singer, songwriter and creative mastermind behind the influential pop and rock band the Beach Boys, has died, his family announced. He was 82. "We are heartbroken to announce that ...

Mike Love has often clashed with his cousin Brian Wilson over his contributions to The Beach Boys, but did he really hate ...

Brian Wilson, the driving force behind the Beach Boys whose sprawling compositional prowess influenced rock musicians from ...