Charles Manson is one of the most famous convicted murderers in American history, but many don't know about his connection to the Beach Boys.

The Beach Boys had some surprising celebrity friends, with Dennis Wilson even living with some of Charles Manson’s family. In fact, one song written by Manson appeared on a Beach Boys album.

In the summer of 1968, a year before he orchestrated seven brutal murders, Charles Manson insinuated himself into a strange relationship with The Beach Boys.

The Beach Boys on Lana Del Rey, Charles Manson and their wistful new Disney+ doc The Beach Boys in 1964: Al Jardine, left, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, Brian Wilson and Carl Wilson.

Ex-Home of Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson, Where He Once Housed Manson Family, Survives Palisades Fire 14400 Sunset Blvd., where in the late 1960s Wilson would regularly host cult leader Charles ...

However, before the harrowing day, Charles Manson nearly signed a record deal. A record deal with the critically acclaimed pair of brothers, Brian and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys.

A sunny if slightly wistful new documentary about the Beach Boys charts the band's six decades of complicated harmony.

His association with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys was instrumental in getting Manson closer to the periphery of Hollywood’s musical elite.

In 1968, Dennis Wilson first met Charles Manson after picking up two female hitchhikers on the Sunset Strip and invited them back to his home. When Wilson brought his involvement with the ...

Bill Scanlan Murphy, right, interviewed Charles Manson in prison in the early ‘90s and produced a radio show about the cult leader’s connection to the Beach Boys.