The year is 2012, and I’d just driven to Detroit — the Motor City I’d dreamed about for years— for the first time in order to ...

Later added to Spirit of America, this was the last Beach Boys track produced before their critically acclaimed album Pet Sounds. What made “The Little Girl ... the speaker had no interest ...

Altfeld co-wrote the song “The Little Old Lady From Pasadena,” which was performed by the Beach Boys and included in their No. 1 album “Beach ... medical board. Wood had not yet read the ...

For Brian Wilson, the creative force behind The Beach Boys, he now had a mission: to top The Beatles’ latest album. “John and I used to be interested in what the old fashioned writers used to ...

“Little Deuce Coupe” appeared on the album ... It had a bouncy feel to it. Like most of our records, it had a competitive lyric. This record was my favorite Beach Boys car song.” ...

Eventually, Rex says, “Come down to my house,” a little further down PCH. We have no Beach Boys shows because of ... an ‘emotionally detrimental’ album and instead surprise-dropped ...