"Here’s to the man who changed the summer season forever," the Beach Boys wrote in an Instagram post about the tribute for the late Brian Wilson.

When the Beach Boys first came onto the music scene in the early '60s, their music encapsulated summer fun and surf culture.

Late 1960s and The Manson Episode In the late 1960s, The Beach Boys' golden image of sun, surf and clean-cut Americana began to fade - both musically and culturally.

It was there that Brian Wilson met Charles Manson and nearly had to escape being part of the cult. While Manson and his “family” moved out by the end of that year, in late 1968, The Beach Boys ...

His brother Dennis fell into the orbit of cult leader Charles Manson. Yet despite it all, Wilson kept making music—until a dementia diagnosis finally silenced his creativity.

Until that's available, catch a wave with us as we take a look at The Beach Boys Members, both now and then, and celebrate their musical achievements.

Brian Wilson, who revolutionized popular music from humble origins in Hawthorne, Ca., and led the Beach Boys to global superstardom, has died at the age of 82, ...

However, before the harrowing day, Charles Manson nearly signed a record deal. A record deal with the critically acclaimed pair of brothers, Brian and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.

The strange history of The Beach Boys and serial killer Charles Manson WHEN the legendary band’s drummer Dennis Wilson boasted of living with 17 girls, he had no idea they’d be involved in one ...

The strange history of The Beach Boys and serial killer Charles Manson WHEN the legendary band’s drummer Dennis Wilson boasted of living with 17 girls, he had no idea they’d be involved in one ...

“Chaos: The Manson Murders,” a new 90-minute documentary on Netflix, is the latest from Errol Morris, a distinguished documentarian.

Errol Morris on 'Chaos: The Manson Murders,' meeting Manson, and his interview style that never involves having a list of questions.