Most cutting of all, Mike Love - Wilson's co-writer on many of The Beach Boys' biggest hits - damned Smile as "a whole album ...

It goes without saying that Brian Wilson, who died last week at the age of 82, was a pure product of Southern California. His ...

The Beach Boys were led by Brian Wilson. Indeed, Brian Wilson was the Beach Boys. He largely wrote, performed, and produced the recordings they made in the 1960s, from “ Surfin’ ” in 1961 to “ Do It ...

Brian Wilson, the chief architect behind surf-rock supernovas The Beach Boys, who soundtracked a generation of youthful ...

Brian Wilson influenced generations of musicians with his innovative approach to studio production, complex vocal ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define ...

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

Paul McCartney is paying tribute to music icon Brian Wilson following the death Wednesday of the Beach Boys co-founder.

"I thought he was going to get better," says Beach Boys co-founder Jardine, who had been hoping to have Wilson make a guest ...

That version of Wilson was played by Paul Dano with eerie specificity. He captured Wilson’s unlikely combination of ambition, ...

An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner ...

Brian Wilson, best known as one of the Beach Boys, who has died aged 82, was a brilliant writer of evocative songs about the surf who later became beset by emotional problems which kept him in bed ...