It was the first time Wilson was the sole producer on a Beach Boys album since his 1966 masterpiece Pet Sounds and all the group’s previous releases from Surfer Girl in 1963.

“Surfer Girl” was the title track of The Beach Boys’ third studio album, released in September 1963. The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. Wilson Also Paid Tribute to Simon in 2001 ...

Though he toured with the other Beach Boys members through the 90s, he decided to move on after Carl Wilson's death in 1998, releasing his first live album in 2001 and a solo studio album in 2010 ...

What stands today is the monument added in 2004 — a brick facade with a white relief of the band’s “Surfer Girl” album cover. The cover of The Beach Boys’ first top hit, “Don’t Worry ...

What stands today is the monument added in 2004 — a brick facade with a white relief of the band’s “Surfer Girl” album cover. The cover of The Beach Boys’ first top hit, “Don’t Worry ...

Brian was officially credited as producer on the Surfer Girl album, their third, before tackling hot rods on Little Deuce Coupe, ... contributing to a new Beach Boys album ,15 Big Ones, ...

The following year, the band’s commercial success skyrocketed with three full-length albums: Surfin’ USA, Surfer Girl, and Little Deuce Coupe–all certified gold, and the latter, platinum.

Like all seemingly simple acts of creation, the Beach Boys’ look required time and deliberation. In the decades since that first album was released, the group went on to sell over 100 million ...

WASHINGTON — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls ...