Wilson sang: "She's my little deuce coupe/You don't know what I got." But Brian, we sure did know what you got. A cynic would say Wilson clearly sat down with the express intent to write a song that ...

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 ...

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

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.” ...

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 ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

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