Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other ...

The spark of the Beach Boys has died at age 82. A critic picks a dozen songs highlighting the talent of the group’s ‘resident genius.’ ...

It’s the song whose title became Brian’s eternal sign-off… and the phrase his family went out on in announcing his death. ... Although the theme is ostensibly kind of adolescent, this 1963 track was a ...

To the theorem that even the saddest Beach Boys song will still make you happy: this is the one that most tests that. There haven’t been many darker existential laments in the history of literary ...

Brian Wilson: 12 Essential Songs. The Beach Boys leader, ... Wilson returned to his earliest theme — life in the California sunshine — only here it was an elegy for his own youth.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

The gimmick of the Beach Boys was to package the 1960s California dream in pop singles that wed up-tempo guitar songs with multipart harmonies. The reason the group endured was Brian Wilson, the ...

Brian Wilson passed away at age 82 on June 11, and fans are mourning the loss of the Beach Boys founder who reshaped pop music in the '60s. Wilson, whose wife, Melinda Ledbetter, passed in 2024 ...

Brian Wilson's musical legacy influenced some of the biggest artists today, including Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen.

When Brian Wilson and Elton John met for the first time, the Beach Boys founder opened the door singing a tune by the "Rocket Man" singer.

Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” said Brian Wilson. “He was a sensitive person. He was a very good artist." ...