The Beach Boys co-founder and legendary songwriter Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. SIGN UP FOR DECIDER DIGEST FOR NEWS AND STREAMING RECOMMENDATIONS Wilson’s family announced his passing June ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

As such eminent talking heads as Bruce Springsteen, Don Was and Elton John are wheeled out to testify to Brian’s brilliance, a sceptic might detect the unseen hand of Brian’s current wife and manager ...

Brian Wilson, who died June 11 at 82, made music history as a Beach Boy. But the more than 30 years he spent as a solo artist — longer than his time with The Beach Boys — shouldn't be overlooked in ...

Fred Vail is remembering the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. In an interview with the CBS affiliate in Nashville following Wilson’s death, Vail spoke about his relationship with the band. Vail first met the ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased. By Bob Mehr Though Brian Wilson was one of pop’s most studied ...