The Beach Boys: After Pet Sounds

Though the Beach Boys' impact on music and culture waned in the wake of Pet Sounds, the band continued to explore the pop idiom, to varying degrees of success, for the next half-century. Their work during this lengthy period is divided between intriguing experiments and nostalgia-fuelled revivals of their early sound like 1988's “Kokomo,” which became their first No. 1 hit in two decades.