Did The Beach Boys secretly help shape Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Allegedly, their harmonies and studio magic paved the way.

The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.

Brian Wilson’s death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana. Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly ...

I’m picking up sad vibrations. Brian Wilson — who co-founded the Beach Boys and was the main architect of their sound — is now surfing the heavens after his death was announced by his family Wednesday ...

The Beach Boys legend, Brian Wilson, shared insight into his music before his June 2025 death. The songwriter wasn't shy about his ridicule of his own music, but some of the biggest clues on his ...

With the recent passing of Brian Wilson, there's been a renewed interest in the surfrockmusic of The Beach Boys. In the band's early years, they became the best and most successful artists playing ...