When the Beach Boys first came onto the music scene in the early '60s, their music encapsulated summer fun and surf culture.

A concert paying tribute to the Beach Boys included Carnie Wilson and her mother and daughter, plus former members Blondie ...

Brian Wilson, whose virtuoso vocal and musical arrangements led the Beach Boys to commercial and critical success, making ...

Late 1960s and The Manson Episode In the late 1960s, The Beach Boys' golden image of sun, surf and clean-cut Americana began to fade - both musically and culturally.

The late Brian Wilson’s band, the Beach Boys, is well-known for its numerous hits but is occasionally remembered for its brief history with Charles Manson.

It was there that Brian Wilson met Charles Manson and nearly had to escape being part of the cult. While Manson and his “family” moved out by the end of that year, in late 1968, The Beach Boys ...

His brother Dennis fell into the orbit of cult leader Charles Manson. Yet despite it all, Wilson kept making music—until a dementia diagnosis finally silenced his creativity.

Brian Wilson, who revolutionized popular music from humble origins in Hawthorne, Ca., and led the Beach Boys to global superstardom, has died at the age of 82, ...

However, before the harrowing day, Charles Manson nearly signed a record deal. A record deal with the critically acclaimed pair of brothers, Brian and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.

Frank Sinatra was on Charles Manson's hit list after Sharon Tate's murder: book Joseph Paris, who was the late singer's hairdresser, recalled how the summer of 1969 sparked fear in Los Angeles in ...

The strange history of The Beach Boys and serial killer Charles Manson WHEN the legendary band’s drummer Dennis Wilson boasted of living with 17 girls, he had no idea they’d be involved in one ...

Charles Manson’s motive for cult killings is getting reexamined as an FBI criminal profiler reveals a "perfect storm" of factors that came together.