The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions ...

"Caroline, No" was released as the first solo Brian Wilson song in 1966, and then appeared as the closing track on the ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most ...

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” ...

Listening to Brian Wilson’s music was like growing up with him. Beginning with songs about teenage kicks like surfing, ...

Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote some of the 20th century’s best and most enduring pop songs. These are some of our favorites.

We pick Brian Wilson's five greatest songs from a long career that moved from the Beach Boys to his eclectic solo creations.

The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into ...

A ranking of the 20 greatest songs written by Brian Wilson, from 'Surfer Girl' to 'Surf's Up' to 'Love and Mercy.' ...

‘Darlin’’ (1967) The Beach Boys were in decline by 1967 — in health and hipness alike. Wilson revamped a song he wrote with ...

It’s enough of a signature song for Brian that Don Was picked it as the title when he directed a 1995 documentary about Wilson. For a lot of the rest of us, in 2025, this number is still ...

Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, died on June 11, 2025, at age 82. His passing marked the end of a career that ...