“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” ...

Part I Wouldn’t It Be Nice The eulogies for Brian Wilson continue to roll in like the surf break at Huntington Beach.

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

Brian Wilson, considered one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, lauded for being the creative force behind the Beach Boys’ rise to fame in the 1960s and credited with writing ...

The spark of the Beach Boys has died at age 82. A critic picks a dozen songs highlighting the talent of the group’s ‘resident ...