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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key contributors include Wilson’s charmingly eccentric collaborator Van Dyke Parks and bandleader Darian Sahanaja, without whom the resurrected SMiLE would never have happened. As for the fragile ...

SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, And Resurrection Of Brian Wilson is Leaf ’s obsessive oral history of that famous slow-motion triumph. Nearly 40 decades after his first Wilson biography, Leaf’s bank of sources ...