It was a moment of bittersweet vibrations. That was the mood when the Beach Boys frontman Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night. The enshrinement at New York’s Marriott Marquis came just one day after it was confirmed that his brilliant bandmate — and cousin — Brian Wilson died at 82.

This year’s inductees include Tom Johnston, Patrick Simmons and Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, funk pioneer George Clinton, country songwriter Ashely Gorley, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, pr...

A legendary British rocker is going viral with his new, stripped-down recording of God Only Knows as a tribute to the late, great Brian Wilson.