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 ...

The Beach Boys’ story is one of contradictions: genius and triviality, harmony and disharmony, creativity and commodity, Dennis Wilson and Al Jardine, Brian Wilson and Mike Love. Endorsed by ...

Nobody, not even their record company, believed in the Beach ... an album named after Wilson and Mike Love's pre-Beach Boys group which included two new members and eight songs that had little ...

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 ...

“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.” ...