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Hopefully, the sun will be shining when The Beach Boys arrive in Berkshire this week for the only UK concert on their current world tour. But whatever the weather, the group will be sure to transport

The brilliant songwriter behind The Beach Boys ...

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BRIAN WILSON shaped the ’60s pop-culture revolution, culminating in The Beach Boys’ masterpiece: Pet Sounds . But where did his incomparable songwriting gifts come from? Stephen Troussé investigates, while former bandmates and collaborators recall a genius at work. “He was a miracle, a walking miracle,” we learn. “There’ll never be another one like him. Everybody loved Brian.”

June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025

The Beatles came together in Liverpool in 1960 and in just ten years, until 1970 when they disbanded, they had changed the face of Western popular culture in ways that still strongly resonate to this