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Look hard enough and you can still see the shaggy-haired teen heart throbs. They’re a few decades older but just as excited.
One of its albums, The Rutles, reached No. 63 on the Billboard 200 in April 1978. The album comprises 14 original parodies, ...
Notable about Sgt. Pepper’s is that “A Day In the Life” (it frequently comes in at #1 in the holiday weekend playback of the ...
Brian Wilson, the brilliant musician who codified the California teen lifestyle in a series of ’60s hits by his band the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.
Brian Wilson, the singer, songwriter and creative mastermind behind the influential pop and rock band the Beach Boys, has died, his family announced. He was 82. "We are heartbroken to announce that ...
The Beatles icon Sir Ringo Starr forced director Sir Sam Mendes to make changes to the script of his upcoming biopic. Sam is ...
The Beatles, of course, felt the same way about Wilson and the Beach Boys; as McCartney continued in that Songwriters Hall speech, " (Wilson) wrote some music that, when I played it, it made me cry.
Plastic Ono Band “You’ll have to explain this a little to me,” Voormann once said about Lennon’s plan for the Plastic Ono Band. “I have no idea what the Plastic Ono Band is.
To see what happens when pop music meets the underground, check out these brilliant indie rock Beach Boys covers.
The Beach Boys' co-founder talks to The Times about his longtime former bandmate who helped shape the culture of SoCal music.
These Boston cover bands play the songs you know and love (or in some cases, thought you hated) by the wildly varied hitmakers of yesteryear.
George Harrison said he didn't agree with one of The Beatles' creative decisions. He shared why it made him uncomfortable.