Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Wilson, whose “teenage symphonies to God” made him the poet laureate of adolescent heartbreak as a founding member of The ...

Brian Wilson wasn’t a car guy, but he and The Beach Boys made some of the most influential catalog of car songs in American ...

In a 1964 episode of American Bandstand, as D* Clark is interviewing the Beach Boys, all fresh-faced and matching Pendleton stripes, he asks: “You have hit after hit. Who determines what will be done ...

The Beach Boys’ music was like an ongoing party, with Wilson as host and wallflower. He was a tall, shy man, partially deaf (allegedly because of beatings by his father, Murry Wilson), with a sweet, ...

The death of the poet laureate of adolescent heartbreak was announced by his family on Wednesday: “We are at a loss for words right now.” By Roy Trakin Brian Wilson, whose “teenage symphonies to God” ...