The Beach Boys' scored their third No. 1 hit with "Good Vibrations," a "truly radical" track that rewrote the rules for a pop ...

“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 ...

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

Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music. The album’s reputation grew over time.

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

Two "Pet Sounds" highlights, the former featuring envelope-pushing instrumentation and production and the latter, a ...

Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote some of the 20th century’s best and most enduring pop songs. These are some of our favorites.

The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson has died at 82. His early works include "God Only Knows," "Good Vibrations" and more.

Brian Wilson was an off-stage presence for this 1971 Beach Boys concert, in which L.A. Times Robert Hilburn described the ...

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has died at 82. Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for ...

The musical world has lost a giant. Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader, has died at age 82.