Four years ago, the Beach Boys' drummer was sleeping in a garage in ... he sullenly avoided high school friends at the usual Saturday morning surf spots and practiced elsewhere along the beaches ...

In 1961, Dennis Wilson – the drummer in a vocal group The Pendletons ... getting drunk that night at a basketball game. A diehard surfer and rebellious 17-year-old, he was sleeping in a ...

Surfboard featured on the covers of two early Beach Boys albums set to be auctioned for $150,000 Legend has it that Dennis Wilson - the band's only real surfer - brought his own board along to the ...