Beach Boys
‘We’re a new age travelling circus’: the duo who took Britney Spears to the Yorkshire seaside
From Lionel Richie saying hello to Lytham to Kylie doing The Locomotion on a train in Scarborough, promoters Cuffe and Taylor have managed to lure a host of big names to provincial towns around the UK. What’s their secret?
Deborah Linton
26, May, 2023 @10:00 AM
The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!
Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever
Alexis Petridis
15, Dec, 2022 @1:52 PM
Zooey Deschanel: ‘Manic pixie dream girl? I’m not a girl. I’m a woman’
As her duo She & Him release a Beach Boys covers album, the actor-musician answers your questions on duetting with Prince, crying to Björk and raging at the US supreme court
As told to Dave Simpson
21, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM
I booked Beach Boys concert tickets, but got bad vibrations
There are two rival bands and the wrong one was pictured on Viagogo
Zoe Wood
12, Jul, 2022 @6:00 AM
The Beach Boys’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
As a new documentary about Brian Wilson arrives, we take on the near-impossible task of sorting his band’s best, from lustful-teen pop to meditative balladry
Alexis Petridis
27, Jan, 2022 @2:48 PM
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road review – good vibrations in kindly portrait
There’s smart input from Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and others, but this documentary really excels in its moments of intimacy as Wilson revisits his past
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
20, Jan, 2022 @11:00 AM
The greatest songs about the climate crisis – ranked!
As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
Alexis Petridis
28, Oct, 2021 @12:30 PM
‘It was the happiest time’: The Beach Boys on their strange second coming
They helped define the 60s, but were hopelessly uncool as the 70s began – and Brian Wilson was unravelling. The band discuss the masterpieces they made against the odds
Dave Simpson
27, Aug, 2021 @5:00 AM
The greatest ever songs of the summer – ranked!
From Don Henley to Drake, we rate the hottest sounds of the season
Michael Cragg
10, Jun, 2021 @1:07 PM
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: 100-1
Look back on our complete countdown of the greatest UK No 1s, from the Beatles to Baby D, and So Solid Crew to Suzi Quatro
Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Alexis Petridis and Laura Snapes
05, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 11, The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
It captured the mumbled inarticulacy and heightened feelings of love, but also the sound of a culture changing
Laura Barton
22, May, 2020 @7:58 AM
What made 60s music giants so great? Jamming says Bob Dylan's son
Singer’s new documentary about the 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene shows why there is no substitute for creative collaboration
Vanessa Thorpe
09, May, 2020 @2:10 PM
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