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After more than a decade away from the top 40 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, The Beach Boys return to the region, as the ...
The family of Brian Wilson, the co-founder of the Beach Boys, announced on June 11 that he passed away at the age of 82. Wilson shaped the Beach Boys ’ timeless sound as the band’s songwriter and ...
If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering. It certainly wouldn’t have been possible without the input of Wilson’s ...
“My favourite albums by other people,” he says, “tend to be: Music from Big Pink by the Band, Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, ...
The Beach Boys: Album Guide. ... The Beach Boys pose for a portrait in 1964. From left to right, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Brian Wilson. Gems/Redferns/Getty Images.
To wit, the Beach Boys’ “That’s Why God Made the Radio,” the band’s first new album in 16 years and one that celebrates the archetypal Southern California group’s 50th anniversary.
A concert paying tribute to the Beach Boys included Carnie Wilson and her mother and daughter, plus former members Blondie ...
The Beach Boys were one of the most popular singing groups of the 1960s. The band was famous for their songs about surfing, California, and girls. Many of their albums rocketed to the top of the ...
Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define American pop music, has died.
In this 1965 interview — his first with the Los Angeles Times — Brian Wilson already showed a remarkably prescient grasp of ...
There, possibly two albums hit the mark - The 1964 Christmas Album by The Beach Boys, and another by another sixties band that was formally their last Christmas Party by The Monkees from 2018.
Brian Wilson wrote a Beach Boys album after listening to The Beatles’ track. Before Sgt. Pepper’s was released, McCartney flew down to Los Angeles to visit Wilson and his wife.