A few years later, Wilson helped the group expand beyond that surf and beach culture with more mature music, culminating in 1966's Pet Sounds, 1967's scrapped effort, Smile, and the single "Good ...

LOS ANGELES – 1968: Band leader Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band “The Beach Boys” poses for a portrait in 1968 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) ...

Musical visionary Brian Wilson’s family announced on Wednesday that the Beach Boys’ co-founder died at 82. Biographer David Leaf has been a close friend of Wilson for more than 45 years, and his new ...

Wilson’s struggles with mental health issues played a role in the followup to Pet Sounds —the unfinished album Smile, which the Beach Boys began recording in 1966.

FILE - The Beach Boys, from left, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, hold their trophies after being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in New York, Jan. 21, 1988.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other ...

Wilson’s ambition, however, was undercut by intensifying, untreated mental illness as well as by drug use (including hashish and amphetamines) and pressure from the other Beach Boys and the ...

When the Beach Boys started back in 1961, they seemed like little more than a novelty surf band that would vanish from memory ...

While what’s left of the Beach Boys continue to sing songs about surfing and girls all across America, Brian Wilson is holed up in a Los Angeles studio recording Smile. Yes, in the Beach Boys ...

Wisely, and this is what “Beautiful Dreamer” is good at bringing out, the Brian Wilson Band has made a 2004 interpretation of a 1967 work, knowing they aren’t the Beach Boys and that the ...