Wilson and surviving band members Mike Love and Al Jardine participated in assembling the tracks — which include the “SMiLE” album as it was originally intended plus alternate versions and ...

Beach boys leader Brian Wilson abandoned his ambitious follow-up to Pet Sounds. This new book seeks to understand why.

Long-serving Wilson friend and biographer David Leaf goes deep on the four decade long story of The Beach Boys’ lost 1967 ...

The bookshops are awash with books about the Beach Boys, so do we need another one? Well if you are interested in the mythology of the band’s legendary ...

LONDON, England (CNN) --Former Beach Boys star Brian Wilson has received ... Girls' and 'Fun Fun Fun.'" "Smile" was designed to be a follow-up to the 1966 album "Pet Sounds" and an attempt to ...

We were talking to Wilson ... To Exist”, penned by Brian’s new pal – wild-eyed wannabe Charles Manson. “Friends is in my top five favourite Beach Boys albums. Dennis really did his ...

When I heard that Brian Wilson’s wife, Melinda ... He played a lot of other stuff from the unreleased Smile album. He sat at the keyboard the whole time, and drank beers in between the songs.