Wilson's ambition stoked a creative rivalry with The Beatles, redefining the artistic potential of popular music.

Paul McCartney claimed Brian Wilson's efforts in creating The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds were a massive influence on ...

As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own ...

Paul McCartney paid tribute to the Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson on Instagram, who died on June 11 at 82 years old. "Brian ...

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

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense ...

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” ...

The Beatles loved the Beach Boys. And the feeling was mutual — even if Mike Love challenged “the Mop Tops” to a battle of the ...

Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and more paid tribute to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson after his tragic death on June 11, 2025.

Paul McCartney is honoring "musical genius" Brian Wilson, writing in a tribute that he was "privileged to be around his ...

One of my fondest memories is the 1977 Beach Boys concert at Olympia. It was a freezing cold January night in Michigan and ...

Sean Ono Lennon is one of the latest celebrities to speak out about the death of iconic Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson.