The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into ...

Brian Wilson's "smart Girls" was supposed to be the centerpiece and/or big closing number of his Sire Records album "Sweet Insanity." Instead it was one of the big reasons the album was shelved.

The world is mourning the loss of music icon Brian Wilson ... the very start of the '90s he recorded a rap song, “Smart Girls.” According to Wilson’s first memoir, "Wouldn’t It Be Nice ...

From summertime rock classics to complex meditations on adult longing, the Beach Boys genius changed music forever ...

Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys co-founder who masterminded the group's decades-long popularity and soundtracked the California ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys musician, songwriter and producer who created some of history’s most purely beautiful pop music, ...

The death of a towering figure such as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson marks the closing of a chapter in the history of music ...

The Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds – written and produced almost entirely by Wilson – is seen not only as the group’s ...

The former Beach Boy's distinctive sound - sunshine tinged with melancholy - still rings true, writes longtime fan Nik Dirga.

That version of Wilson was played by Paul Dano with eerie specificity. He captured Wilson’s unlikely combination of ambition, innocence, brilliance, and fragility. The sense that the man who produced ...

They wrote, "We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right ... asked to pick his favourite songs that influenced him and ...