In this 1983 interview, Brian Wilson opens up while under the care of controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy, who was later barred from contacting him.
Brian Wilson was an off-stage presence for this 1971 Beach Boys concert, in which L.A. Times Robert Hilburn described the band as having “an identity crisis” in Wilson’s absence.
In this 1965 interview — his first with the Los Angeles Times — Brian Wilson already showed a remarkably prescient grasp of the lifelong hold his music would have on fans.
When the galbi jjim hits the table, hissing and sputtering in a heavy stone pot, a mountain of meat and vegetables rising out of a violently red lagoon of broth, you know you’re in the right place.
“King of the kazoos,” is not the most important story the Los Angeles Times has ever published, but it might just be the funniest. The late, great Al Martinez wrote about kazoo salesman Albert Broder several times over his career, but this 1986 column is a classic. The Times is republishing it as part of L.A. Timeless, a selection of some of the best work from our archive.
