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Badly Drawn Boy has shared a story of how The Beach Boys’ ‘Pet Sounds’ once led to him making a track with The Fall’s Mark E.
Despite singing about surfing and being endlessly labelled as a surf band, the Beach Boys didn't actually sound anything like ...
Paul McCartney has described God Only Knows, the album's centrepiece, as the greatest song ever written (it was interesting that his daughter, Stella, should have chosen it as one of her Desert Island ...
The Beach Boys were probably the last group on earth expected to start a musical revolution. After all, they had built their renown as clean-living all-American kids delivering harmonized hymns ...
The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should ...
From his brutal childhood - beaten so badly by his monstrous father that he was deaf in one ear - to his decades of paranoid, ...
If you enjoy most any kind of pop music, you’re a cork in Brian Wilson’s ocean. The principal songwriter and sonic architect ...
Wilson's family posted news of his death to his website and social media accounts Wednesday. Further details weren't ...
A near-capacity audience, a mixture of diehard Beach Boys fans, local musicians and the curious, packed Centre Court to see the musician, often described with the clichéd term “tortured genius”, ...
There's Good Vibrations aplenty this weekend through June 22 as Sierra Repertory Theatre (SRT) stages Pet Sounds: A Tribute ...