Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer - a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single - by taking an ...

What a difference an “h” makes. When “Help Me, Ronda” was originally featured on The Beach Boys Today! in early 1965, the band didn’t think too much of the shuffling love song with the repetitive hook ...

At his peak, Brian Wilson — who died this week at age 82 — went through periods the way a painter does. First, he made his family-and-friends act The Beach Boys a band for all seasons (but one in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Beach Boys are remembered as one of the most successful pop ...

Indeed, it’s hard to resist the urge to chime in with “Aruba, Jamaica, oooh, I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on, pretty Mama” at the beginning of The Beach Boys’ track, “Kokomo”. Mike Love ...

Brian Wilson was behind many of the band's biggest hits. The Beach Boys are known not only for hit singles like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and more, but also for one ...

“Roll down the window, put down the top/Crank up The Beach Boys, baby/Don't let the music stop!” --Randy Newman, “I Love L.A.” It’s summertime, which means one thing: It’s time to follow Randy ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

The gimmick of the Beach Boys was to package the 1960s California dream in pop singles that wed up-tempo guitar songs with multipart harmonies. The reason the group endured was Brian Wilson, the group ...

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

Though Brian Wilson and Dennis Wilson never shared a co-writing credit on any Beach Boys songs, brother Carl did write several songs with their older brother. “Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” ...