"We're either gonna have the biggest hit in the world, or the Beach Boys' career is over." According to bandleader Brian Wilson's autobiography Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story, that's how Beach Boys ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. That, in effect, ...
This archival footage from 1966 shows Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys working on “Good Vibrations” in the studio. “Back at that time, there’s a lot of upbeat, up-tempo songs but Brian brought in this ...
Forever No. 1 is a Billboard series that pays special tribute to the recently deceased artists who achieved the highest honor our charts have to offer - a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single - by taking an ...