Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ lead songwriter and inventive producer, was finally finished with “Good Vibrations,” a song he had been perfecting, on-and-off, for months throughout 1966. In the studio, ...

The Beach Boys started rehearsing and recording “Good Vibrations” the week of February 17, 1966, but the inspiration for the song came to Brian Wilson years earlier while growing up in Hawthorne, ...

Few songs have changed pop music, production styles, linguistics, or history in general quite like the song The Beach Boys released on October 10, 1966. Decades later, these notions might sound ...

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