When you sit down to watch a documentary about the Beach Boys ... "Pet Sounds," in the Beach Boys' rivalry with the Beatles, in the derailed masterpiece that was "Smile," and in how Brian's ...

So here it is: such stuff as dreams and bootlegs are made on. Brian Wilson’s unfinished symphony was in production at the same time as Disney’s The Jungle Book. It finally emerges, with a ...

But the documentary The Beach Boys (streaming on Disney+ ... but anyone with a glancing interest in Pet Sounds, Smile and Sunflower won’t find much to savor. READ MORE: When the Beach Boys ...

Curiously, only one of the original Beach Boys knew how to surf ... but suffered a breakdown trying to shape ‘Smile’ into the masterpiece he was hearing in his head (it was finally completed ...

A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE Sessions,” a two-disc set of tracks recorded by the Beach Boys during 1966-67 for the famous “lost” album that ...