Conceived by The Beach Boys’ singular visionary Brian Wilson, 1966’s Pet Sounds represented a high watermark both in the history of pop music, and for the development of the recording studio as a creative hub.
Its rich instrumentation, beautiful songwriting and immaculate production would inspire the decade’s other forward-thinking hit-makers, The Beatles, to push the envelope even further, concocting Revolver and Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the subsequent year. Both albums were openly indebted to Pet Sounds.
