Legendary achievements last forever but legends do not. Of course we know this. But in the monotonous run of days when ...

“Woudn’t It Be Nice” reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, while its follow-up single, “God Only Knows,” hit No. 39 ...

Wilson leaves behind a singular catalog of pop and rock music, which is of course headlined by his work in the '60s and '70s ...

UVA pop culture expert Jack Hamilton says the 1960s music icon merged different genres into his unique style, taking rock and ...

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys passed away June 11 at age 82, just two days after fellow Californian Sly Stone of Sly and the ...

Millions around the world are mourning the loss of Brian Wilson, the creative mind behind the Beach Boys’ biggest hits, ...

Part I Wouldn’t It Be Nice The eulogies for Brian Wilson continue to roll in like the surf break at Huntington Beach.

With his recent passing, which stars like John Cusack and Stephen King recently paid tribute to, I was reminded of one of the ...

As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...

Who knows what really happened to Brian Wilson? By the time modern audiences came to know and love his work, something was deeply, observably amiss within the mind and body of the California-born ...