From "Love and Mercy" to a "Duck Dodgers" soundtrack, Brian Wilson's solo music could be spiritual, upbeat, arty or just ...

June 11, 2025 • The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's greatest songwriters and producers. Here are NPR's best ...

Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with biographer Peter Ames Carlin about Wilson's legacy.

From 1988 to when he stopped touring in 2022, Brian Wilson forged an admirable solo career worth remembering. He played South ...

The Beach Boys: Documentary director reflects on surf band’s legacy Interviews with The Beach Boys' Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, director Frank Marshall, as a documentary on the band comes to ...

Given the iconic stature of The Beach Boys, you may assume the band committed their history to book form long ago. But the surf-rock heroes behind “California Girls,” “I Get Around ...

Amidst palm trees and beaches, “The Beach Boys” documentary starts off in the idyllic neighborhood of Hawthorne, California. In 1961, a group of Hawthorne boys came together to harmonize and ...

Nobody, not even their record company, believed in the Beach Boys – and who could blame ... offers a more balanced portrait of the band's legacy.) Recruits Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar ...

Their loss. As you'll see in our list of Beach Boys Albums Ranked Worst to Best, they built their legacy on more than just surfing songs. Did Bob Dylan Narrate the Trailer to Machine Gun Kelly ...

The Beach Boys surf into Fayetteville on Sept ... Randy Leago and John Wedemeyer continue the legacy of the iconic band. Tickets to the Wednesday evening concert will run $79.95 - $159.95 and ...