"Baby Blue Bathing Suit," out Friday, is part of the soundtrack for the new Beach Boys documentary Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

The Beach Boys‘ songs were great, but they didn’t have a tremendous amount of influence on mainstream music like The Beatles had. Very few mainstream groups could be classified as Beach Boys wannabes.

The music world lost one of its most brilliant and influential minds today, as Beach Boy Brian Wilson just passed away at 82 following a battle with dementia. In a statement on his official Instagram ...