Part I Wouldn’t It Be Nice The eulogies for Brian Wilson continue to roll in like the surf break at Huntington Beach.

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define ...

A standout track from The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, it epitomised Wilson’s shift into complex, sophisticated compositions ...

But Brian turned his fantasies into a California dream-world of fast cars and cool waves — a world that might even have room ...

God Only Knows,” written when Wilson was just 23, is perhaps as close to a perfect pop song as there is—and certainly the most beautiful.

God Only Knows Where California Would Be Without Brian Wilson originally appeared on L.A. Mag. The Beach Boys (clockwise from left Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and Dennis ...

It’s still startling to hear — especially “God Only Knows,” a tune everyone on Earth wishes they could sing, although these are high notes only angels or Carl Wilson could reach.

Brian Wilson, the chief architect behind surf-rock supernovas The Beach Boys, who soundtracked a generation of youthful ...

A legendary British rocker is going viral with his new, stripped down recording of God Only Knows as a tribute to the late, ...

Sting performed a cover of the Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows' in tribute to Brian Wilson at his concert in Rostock, Germany on ...