When the sad news of Brian Wilson's death was announced last week the tributes poured in, praising him as the guiding light ...

The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt f ...

If The Beach Boys felt threatened by the Fab Four's explosive arrival, they were not going down without a fight.

You don’t have to be friends with the people you make music with – but it helps not to be enemies.The annals of music history ...

Brian Wilson was a troubled genius who made so many people happy but had far too much sadness in his life already.