With the recent passing of Brian Wilson at age 82, I return to my lifelong dispute on the erroneously accepted narrative of popular music during the early sixties before the Beatles showed up as a ...

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

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 ...

Released just eight months after their debut, With the Beatles sounds like a band sprinting to keep up with its own momentum.

The Beatles may be rock overlords, but Rick Wakeman isn't as easy to impress. As such, his favourite album by the Fab Four is ...

Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has died at 82. NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader who helped compose and arrange “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and ...

Wilson and his fellow Beach Boys rose in the 1960s from local California band to national hitmakers to international ambassadors of surf and sun.

The concept album emerged in the 1960s, with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles and its like, and it endures to this day. ... Almost always, a concept album ...

The Beatles’ iconic track “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” is the third song on the A-side of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a concept album that marked the height of the Fab Four ...

Recorded in the style of a performance from said fictional band, 'Sgt Pepper' became one of the first concept albums - telling a complete narrative as it goes on, linked to a central theme.