Any one of these periods would’ve been enough to ensure Brian Wilson’s place in rock history, but the combination of them guarantees him and his Beach Boys catalog absolute immortality, the ...

The Beach Boys music stands the test of all time and still stands tall in 2025. With Wilson's death at 82, a look at the top 10 selling songs in Beach Boys history. 10.

The Beach Boys are known not only for hit singles like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and more, but also for one particular album -- their influential 1966 masterpiece, "Pet ...

Brian Wilson was an off-stage presence for this 1971 Beach Boys concert, in which L.A. Times Robert Hilburn described the band as having "an identity crisis" in Wilson's absence.

The Beatles and The Beach Boys were always fighting for the top spot in the 1960s music scene. They didn’t want to be technically better than each other; they seemingly just wanted to be on par ...

The Beach Boys found in their music the key to unfading youth—and they made copies for everyone. To them, the beach isn’t just a place where the surf comes to play—it’s where life is ...

10 Iconic Beach Boys Needle Drops in Film and TV. From 'Almost Famous' to 'American Graffiti' and 'Full House,' Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys have soundtracked some of Hollywood's biggest titles.

The Beach Boys weren't safe from a few goofy songs now and again, but Dennis Wilson knew some albums were never meant to happen.

On the Billboard 200, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, released in 2003, jumps 180-52 (15,500 units; up 71%) and Pet Sounds reenters at No. 136 (11,000; up 1,335%). For the ...

The Beach Boys did have a final No. 1 hit in 1988, ... When Rolling Stone did its own list of the best albums of all time in 2003, “Pet Sounds” ranked second; ...