The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" climbed to No. 10 on the US Billboard 200 chart in 1966 The album fared better in the U.K., where it climbed to No. 2 in the Top 40 chart 4 US hits: "Sloop John B" (No. 3) ...

You don’t need to be told that Pet Sounds is a great album. Side A opens with “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” and side B opens with “God Only Knows.” That alone is enough to cement it as one of music’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Martin and the Fab Four weren’t the only ones whose minds were blown in summer of 1966 by the ...

Fifty years ago this week, a milestone album came from what might have seemed like an unlikely source. The Beach Boys, a hit-making party band with a few prior flashes of brilliance, released Pet ...

“When you listen to Pet Sounds, use earphones in the dark. If you listen in the light, you look around and see things … but in the dark you can hear it all,” says Brian Wilson. Pet Sounds, the Beach ...

Let’s hope Brian Wilson changes his mind again. I was there for the 2007 retirement party for “Pet Sounds” at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, when the Beach Boys legend performed the classic album ...

Tickets will go on sale Friday, November 28, at 10 am. The Beach Boys have announced a show at Custom House Square, Belfast, on June 21, 2026, marking 60 years of their landmark 1966 album, Pet Sounds ...

Produced as part of the BBC “Classic Albums” series, “Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds” has been flown transatlantically to Showtime to belatedly commemorate the 50th anniversary of an album relatively ...

Following up "Pet Sounds." A daunting prospect, don't you think? Surely it helped contribute to Brian Wilson's anxieties back in 1966. The next music project for Wilson and The Beach Boys was "Smile," ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. But that was then. Today, Pet Sounds is regarded not only as the equal of those records but, in ...

Beloved for their hits like ‘ God Only Knows ’, ‘I Get Around’ and ‘ Good Vibrations ’, the American group are getting ready ...

Brian Wilson was doing his best to be a good sport. While talking to a reporter and then posing for a photographer, he often appeared to be enjoying himself about as much as he would on a visit to his ...