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Beach Boys Triumph At Elton’s Wembley Extravaganza
“MidSummer Music,” they called it, and as you can see from the poster, it was some event. 40 years ago today, on June 21, 1975, Elton John headlined a huge, all-day concert at Wembley Stadium for a...
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Bruce Johnston – Endless Harmony
Raised in California Bruce Johnston, like all teenagers in America during the 1950s listened to the radio and credits The Chordettes’ ‘Mr Sandman’ as awakening an interest in vocal harmonies. Bruce...
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Paul Dano On Being Brian
Actor Paul Dano has been talking to the British press about the challenges of playing the younger Brian Wilson in the new biopic ‘Love & Mercy,’ ahead of the film’s UK opening on Friday (10). Dano,...
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In Session With Jim Gordon
When the roll call of rock’s finest session drummers is made, great players from Jim Keltner to Hal Blaine would be the first to insist on a place in the list for Jim Gordon. A fixture on a truly...
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iTunes Presents 50 Legendary American Albums
iTunes has launched a new 50 Legendary American Albums promotion, which encompasses some of the greatest moments in rock, rap, country, pop and soul of the past six decades. The list includes titles by...
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Beach Boys Do It Again With Some Surfing Nostalgia
The long chart career of the Beach Boys has included several singles that weren’t hits at home, but became big successes with their huge and loyal audience in Great Britain. 1967’s ‘Then I Kissed Her,’...
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Mamas & The Papas Follow ‘Monday Monday’
By the summer of 1966, the Mamas and the Papas were two hits into their American chart career, with a third single getting bigger. The Californian vocal group were going about the business of following...
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Beach Boys Ride Hot 100 With ‘Surfer Girl’
The Beach Boys caught a wave and rode it into the US top ten for the first time in May 1963, when ‘Surfin’ U.S.A.’ reached No. 3. After an earlier top 20 single with ‘Surfin’ Safari,’ Brian Wilson’s...
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One Of Those 15 Big Ones For The Beach Boys
Mike Love’s vocals jumped straight in. “Fun is in, it's no sin, it's that time again,” he sang, and it was — time for the Beach Boys to deliver another summer anthem and land another hit from their ’15...
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Coming Up Roses For Bobby Darin
In 1963, Bobby Darin turned 27 in good form. In box office terms, he was a prime nightclub attraction; he had some new hit singles to his already illustrious name; and, as the Billboard cutting below...
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Beach Boys Surf The UK, Two Years Late
It’s a historical oddity that the gap between the Beach Boys’ first appearance on the UK singles chart, and their first chart album there, was more than two years. On September 25, 1965, as they made a...
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In ’67, The Beach Boys Still Raised A Smile
It was, at the time, an album of what might have been, but Smiley Smile is nonetheless a fascinating chapter in the story of the Beach Boys. The album today celebrates the 48th anniversary of its US...
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Do It Again: The Beach Boys’ Top 11 Covers
If anyone knows anything about The Beach Boys, it’s their unique vocal harmonies – courtesy of brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, along with cousin Mike Love, friend Al Jardine and, later, Bruce...
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101 Great Songs About Boys
Chuck Berry implored Johnny to ‘B Goode’ in 1958 Bad boys, toy boys, naughty boys and bell boys – the world is full of all kinds of fellas, and musicians have been inspired to write and sing about...
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The Beach Boys Party On
When The Beach Boys stepped into Western Recorders studio in Hollywood, to record their third album of 1965, they were coming off the back of two of their best-selling LPs to that point, The Beach Boys...
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P.F. Sloan RIP
“I have been seeking P.F. Sloan,” sang Jimmy Webb way back in 1970,, but just who was Sloan and why was he seeking him? Sadly P.F. Sloan passed away on the evening of 15 November 2015, at his home in...
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Do You Wanna Dance With The Mamas and the Papas?
When the Mamas and the Papas asked 'Do You Wanna Dance,' they were by no means the first to offer the invitation. Everyone from Del Shannon to the Beach Boys had got there before them; everyone from...
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New Motown Book Due In The Spring
Adam White, who has written liner notes for the forthcoming live collection Motortown Revue: Live In Paris, is the co-author of a new book covering the entire history of the legendary record label that...
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75 Songs That Define The Last 75 Years
Every year there comes along records that somehow seem to be definitive. They resonate with listeners for reasons that are sometimes difficult to fathom, while at other times they are very much a...
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uDiscover’s Christmas Gifts For You
Christmas comes just once a year… but there are countless songs dedicated to it, from obvious classics such as Bing Crosby’s ‘White Christmas’, to more surprising entries from the likes of The...
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