Few songs have changed pop music, production styles, linguistics, or history in general quite like the song The Beach Boys released on October 10, 1966. Decades later, these notions might sound ...

Composer, bass player, singer and Beach Boy Brian Wilson drew deep on American traditions. “Brian Wilson was an incredibly important musical figure,” said Jack Hamilton, a professor of Media Studies ...

Brian Wilson, who as leader of the Beach Boys and a founder of California rock invented a massively successful pop sound full of harmonies and sunshine, has died at the age of 82. “We are heartbroken ...

Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly associated a song with the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” album. Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs ...