If the role of the rest of The Beach Boys was diminished on a musical level, Pet Sounds was still a triumph of vocal layering ...

Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music. The album’s reputation grew over time.

The death of Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson reminds us all that the great artists don't live forever, and we should ...

Tiring of making frothy pop, the late Brian Wilson threw away his Beach Boys’ template, assembled a battalion of top session ...

Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote some of the 20th century’s best and most enduring pop songs. These are some of our favorites.

After hearing this one album, Brian Wilson went right to his piano and began making Pet Sounds, being moved by the boldness of another key record.

The Beach Boys founding member will play classic hits, rarities and deep cuts as a tribute to the late Brian Wilson Aug. 22.

Reporter Peter Gilstrap lives every audiophile’s dream — chatting with Brian Wilson about the goats from the “Pet Sounds” album cover.

His father, a frustrated songwriter who sold heavy machinery, was a "tyrant and heavy drinker" and abused Brian physically ...

Paul McCartney has described God Only Knows, the album's centrepiece, as the greatest song ever written (it was interesting that his daughter, Stella, should have chosen it as one of her Desert Island ...

The Beach Boys' classic album 'Pet Sounds' returns to the Billboard 200 chart — and to its highest rank since 1967 — after the death of Brian Wilson.