The Beach Boys' leading man, Brian Wilson, picks his favourite songs with The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Ronettes, Chuck Berry ...

Brian Wilson may have been the mastermind behind every Beach Boys song, but it was always a thing of beauty when he hit on ...

I made Brian Wilson sad once. I didn’t mean to. We were doing a radio interview, the first time I’d ever spoken to him, and I was so excited that I’d spent the entire morning organizing nearly every ...

The five best Brian Wilson songs? No problem. Off the top of my head, I’m sure I could come up with about ten. If need be, I’ll consult his discography to refresh my memory and maybe add a few more to ...

Even great commercial success isn’t always enough to convince someone they’re worthy as an artist, as proven by the strange, sad request Brian Wilson had while traveling on the same day that one of ...

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 ...

I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American Graffiti,” the movie ...

The Beach Boys’ 1966 album Pet Sounds is a source of awe for many musicians, including Henley. Wilson recalled a time when they were backstage at the same event and Henley approached him with the ...