The Beach Boys are an American music group known for their fun, catchy songs about surfing, cars, and young love. Formed in California in the early 1960s, the band included brothers Brian, Dennis, and ...

When most people think of The Beach Boys, they likely think of simple, carefree pop music about surfing, cars, and girls. And yes, that's what the band was known for early in their career. But in 1966 ...

Brian Wilson is one of the songwriters for the Beach Boys, co-writing “God Only Knows” with Tony Asher. When it came to picking a lead vocalist for this song, Wilson “put on his producer hat” and ...

The unexpected hit song was initially released as a B-side track.

Excerpted from "The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds" by Jim Fusilli (Continuum, 2005). Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. “It’s a really, really great song,” said Paul McCartney. “It’s a big ...

The Beach Boys released God Only Knows, and it unexpectedly became their greatest song and most covered classic of all time.

Until the summer of 1966 the Beach Boys were primarily known as a surf’n’hot-rod band, but ‘God Only Knows’, ‘Good Vibrations’ and the Pet Sounds album changed all that - and, by the end of the year, ...