Andy Paley, who produced 1988's Brian Wilson and oversaw the Beach Boys mastermind's last sessions with sibling Carl Wilson, died on Wednesday. Brian Wilson reportedly once described Paley as the ...
Songwriting inspiration can strike at any point for any given reason. For a songwriter as prolific as The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, sometimes inspiration can come from the most unexpected of places.
In the late 1950s, trombonist Paul Tanner and amateur inventor Bob Whitsell developed an instrument to mimic the sound of a theremin. The Electro-Theramin used a different control mechanism but ...
In a career that began 40 years ago with the rather modest debut of “Surfin’ U.S.A.,” Brian Wilson developed a revered melodic composition that embraced both grace and melancholy and with ...
When people consider the greatest producers of all time, many will turn their heads in the direction of Brian Wilson for his remarkable technicolour visions of how pop music should sound. While his ...