“I never even dreamed of meeting The Beach Boys, let alone playing with them,” John Stamos, an unofficial guest touring band member, once told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show, recounting an 80s concert of theirs he went to while he was still a soap star.

The Beach Boys‘ Al Jardine has paid tribute to his late bandmate Brian Wilson in a new statement – see his full quote below. Wilson’s death was announced yesterday (June 11) via his family ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists,

The Beach Boys were one of the USA's biggest bands of the 1960s, who introduced surf-rock to worldwide audience with songs like I Get Around, Surfin' USA and Good Vibrations. The group was formed by Wilson with his younger brothers Carl and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine.