Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session ...

Brian Wilson's best songs exemplify the Beach Boys songwriter's impact and influence on pop music and culture.

I t's not often that Paul McCartney dares to call a song his favorite. He always has a hard time choosing, even among his own ...

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 genius of the Beach Boys group that he co-founded in 1961, Brian Wilson was one of the true visionaries of music who ...

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

From 1962 to 1966, the Beach Boys ... his impact was never in question. Wilson pushed the boundaries of rock music with a series of mid-1960s works including the 1966 album "Pet Sounds," which ...

A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and ...

Having gone from writing surf-rock to remarkably complex and intricate masterpieces in just a few years as the Beach Boys' ...