In a 1964 episode of American Bandstand, as D* Clark is interviewing the Beach Boys, all fresh-faced and matching Pendleton stripes, he asks: “You have hit after hit. Who determines what will be done ...

John Mason knew that Brian Wilson needed help – but it came at a high price. “Brian was in a weak mental state,” the entertainment lawyer, who once represented the fragile leader of the Beach Boys, ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased. By Bob Mehr Though Brian Wilson was one of pop’s most studied ...

In 2014’s Brian Wilson biopic, Love & Mercy, John Cusack was tasked to play the elder version of the enigmatic musical genius who led the Beach Boys and progenitor of California rock. This was ...