Brian Wilson crafted a masterpiece with 1966’s Pet Sounds, but admitted there was one track he personally didn’t care for. Wilson provided notes on every song on the LP in its liner notes. There, he ...

When former Beach Boy Brian Wilson announced in early 2002 that he was going to tour Pet Sounds, the 1966 album routinely held up as the greatest ever made, fans collectively held their breath. In the ...

'Help Me Rhonda' remains one of the most beloved in the Beach Boys catalogue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Al Jardine is in his dressing room. In an hour, maybe less, the Beach Boys guitarist will welcome the crowd to the Musical ...

Being in a tremendously successful band may look easy on the surface, but as many artists will tell you, there is an undercurrent of stress to it that is often difficult to shake. Expectations are ...

To an outspoken contingent of Beach Boys aficionados, the group’s last golden era as a recording unit took place between 1976 and 1977, when Brian Wilson returned to active duty following years of ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

Bruce Johnston often gets overlooked when discussing The Beach Boys' members, but Brian Wilson saw what he was missing when he wrote a classic.

Al Jardine’s endless summer officially began when he was 18 and co-founded The Beach Boys in 1961. It hasn’t stopped yet. “I’m still enjoying this too much to think of quitting,” said the 1988 Rock & ...

Well, of course it couldn’t have been a simple pitch in a board room — no boxed set is, in 2026, least of all one devoted to half-century-old material that mostly didn’t sell well in the first place.