Shortly after the release of Pet Sounds, Brian Wilson set about returning to making the tracks for The Beach Boys’ next masterpiece ... in the years since Smile had failed to come to light. The fact ...

“Kokomo” knocked Phil Collins’ cover of The Mindbenders’ 1965 ... who famously collaborated with Brian on the aborted Beach Boys project Smile, played accordion on the track.

As Wilson’s own songwriting and composition skills grew, however, so did his ambitious approach to covers ... Can Hear Music” for the Beach Boys’ 1969 album, 20/20. Even with just a few ...

The concept album is often viewed as an art form that ... including one from The Beach Boys’ Smile – Good Vibrations. About The Author: David Scott is the Head of Division at the School ...

The Beach Boys released 15 studio albums ... But I’d argue the real conceptual unity of Smile comes from its musical design. This is an album about American music as much as it is about America.

the first image they probably saw of the Beach Boys was on the cover of their 1962 debut album Surfin’ Safari. Clutching a surfboard on the sands of Malibu’s Paradise Cove, their eager teenage ...

The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions ... They’re still a band, but not really. Their best album isn’t technically an album. In 1967, Brian Wilson holds a mirror reflecting ...

Love said band members, including Wilson, met up last year in Paradise Cove, where The Beach Boys shot their first album cover. "(Wilson) brought up things that I'd forgotten about in the past and ...

Parker told the outlet that the album will feature appearances from “country music legends,” as well as “rock & roll legends, contemporary country and pop stars.” The Beach Boys frontman ...

2012 marks the 50 year anniversary for <strong>the Beach Boys, and Capitol Records is doing a large reissue campaign to mark the occasion. You wouldn’t know it by ...

Pictured is the Beach Boys’ “Smile” album cover. The Beach Boys and The Beatles often inspired each others’ music, like Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” inspiring Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club ...

Even if he wasn’t the record producer for “Pet Sounds,” the brilliant 1966 Beach Boys album ... cover songs. Those include the Ramones song “Rockaway Beach,” and that made me smile.