Mike Love: Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy. Farmington Hills, Mich: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4104-9417-7 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Keith Badman: The Beach Boys : the definitive diary of America's greatest band, on stage and in the studio. San Francisco, Calif. : Backbeat Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-87930-818-6 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Mark Dillon: Fifty sides of the Beach Boys : the songs that tell their story. Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-77041-071-8 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Steven S. Gaines: Heroes and villains : the true story of the Beach Boys. New York, N.Y. : New American Library, 1986, ISBN 978-0-453-00519-7 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Jon Stebbins: Dennis Wilson: the real Beach Boy. Toronto, Ont.: ECW Press, 2000, ISBN 978-1-55022-404-7 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Peter Ames Carlin: Catch a wave: the rise, fall & redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson. [Emmaus, Pa.]: Rodale: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006, ISBN 978-1-59486-320-2 (archive.org [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
Philip Lambert: Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4411-0748-0 (google.de [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).
David V. Moskowitz: The 100 Greatest Bands of All Time: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World [2 volumes]: A Guide to the Legends Who Rocked the World. ABC-CLIO, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4408-0340-6 (google.de [abgerufen am 21. Juni 2025]).