On this day, December 10, 1966, the biggest competitor of The Beatles landed their third No. 1 hit on the most famous chart in the world.

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Few songs have changed pop music, production styles, linguistics, or history in general quite like the song The Beach Boys released on October 10, 1966. Decades later, these notions might sound ...

How, I wonder, could one salvage the presently disastrous musical Good Vibrations, which is based on the preexistent songs of the Beach Boys? Doubtless encouraged by the success—unmerited, to my ...

Did you know that there are two versions of The Beach Boys? The “real” Beach Boys died this summer. This week’s cover art for Do the Shore magazine is an homage to the album art for The Smile Sessions ...

The whole world sees the California Dream to the soundtrack of Beach Boys songs. “If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ ...

There’s little left to say about the brilliance of Pet Sounds—except perhaps to show it. In honor of Brian Wilson, who passed away last Wednesday, we’re sharing rare 1966 footage capturing the Beach ...

American music's equivalent to John Lennon has crossed the rainbow bridge, an ever-tedious euphemism for death. God only knows what the nation's culture would be without Brian Wilson. Imagine, ...

The recent death of Brian Wilson was a real gut-punch to to us here at MusicRadar. The visionary architect behind so many of our favourite ever records - and the man who pioneered the notion of the ...

Good Vibrations wasn’t born in a vacuum, the will to even attempt a track this weird was spurred by the increasingly adventurous musical direction the Beach Boys were already heading down. The five ...