The summer anthem started as a piano riff inspired by an old Western movie scene.

In the mid-’70s, after a few years in the wilderness, Brian Wilson returned as a writer, singer and producer for the Beach Boys, a comeback heralded by their record company with the declaration “Brian ...

Brian Wilson's career had plummeted to dark depths come 1991, but luckily, the music helped pull him out of it.

The country music singer joined the Beach Boys from 1964 to 1965 ...

Well, of course it couldn’t have been a simple pitch in a board room — no boxed set is, in 2026, least of all one devoted to half-century-old material that mostly didn’t sell well in the first place.