For more than 50 years, the soundtrack to the summer has come through the melodies, music and words of The Beach Boys. Teens dreamed of the beach while listening to “Surfin’ USA” and “California Girls ...

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 ...

Hits like Surfin' USA', 'I Get Around', 'Fun, Fun, Fun' and 'Surfer Girl' turned the group into America's biggest selling band Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder who masterminded the group's wild ...

I was born April 22, 1949 in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. I basically spent the first 10 years of my life growing up on or around farms in Western Pa. My father gave me my first guitar when I was 14 (1963) ...

Just as I can't travel to Liverpool without thinking of The Beatles, so I can't travel to Los Angeles without thinking of The Beach Boys. Their songs of beaches, baggies, boards and bikinis painted a ...