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A concert paying tribute to the Beach Boys included Carnie Wilson and her mother and daughter, plus former members Blondie Chaplin and David Marks.
The Beach Boys hit No. 1 with “I Get Around,” “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Good Vibrations” in the ’60s. Getty Images. Name anything else that sounds more like heaven than the transcendent ...
The Beach Boys are known not only for hit singles like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around" and more, but also for one particular album -- their influential 1966 masterpiece, "Pet ...
Brian Wilson, the influential pop musician who co-founded the the Beach Boys and wrote such hit songs as 'Good Vibrations,' 'I Get Around,' and 'God Only Knows,' has died at 82.
Originally released in May 1964 as the sole single from the Beach Boys' sixth album, All Summer Long, "I Get Around" would become the group's first song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100, a feat they ...
The Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, ... Between 1962 to 1966, the group had 13 singles in the Billboard Top 10, with “I Get Around,” “Help Me, ...
The Beach Boys had racked up four top 10 hits on the Hot 100 prior to “I Get Around,” but this ebullient song was their first single to reach No. 1.
Brian Wilson and the other Beach Boys members' vision pushed and inspired not only The Beatles and Elton John, but the entire music world. "With its vivid orchestration, lyrical ambition, elegant ...
Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with biographer Peter Ames Carlin about Wilson's legacy.
Billie Joe Armstrong has paid tribute to Brian Wilson by sharing a cover of the Beach Boys’ 1964 classic “I Get Around.” The Green Day guitarist and vocalist shared his rendition of the song ...
Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with biographer Peter Ames Carlin about Wilson's legacy.