When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns On June 11, 2025, we lost Brian Wilson. He was 82, so the news wasn ...

On Nov. 16, 1966 — six months to the day after the Beach Boys released “Pet Sounds,” strangely enough — Jorge Luis Borges was lecturing on English literature at the University of Buenos Aires, ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...

Brian Wilson, the legendary co-founder of the Beach Boys and one of the greatest songwriters of all time, has died at the age of 82. The news was confirmed by Wilson's family in a social media post on ...

Al Jardine of the Beach Boys reflects on Brian Wilson's life and musical legacy after his passing. Jardine recalls how he and Wilson formed the Beach Boys while in college. The Pet Sounds Band, led by ...

John Mason knew that Brian Wilson needed help – but it came at a high price. "Brian was in a weak mental state," the entertainment lawyer, who once represented the fragile leader of the Beach Boys, ...

Brian Douglas Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer renowned for his groundbreaking ...

When one learns of a genius musician, it’s hard not to research everything one can about that artist’s process. This is especially the case if you’re a musician yourself. I’ve spent quite a bit of ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

Brian Wilson was laid to rest nearly two months after his death at 82. The late Beach Boys legend’s daughter, Carnie, 57, took to Instagram Wednesday, Aug. 6, to share the news. “Today we laid my ...

A l Jardine is feeling a little uneasy. It’s about five hours until a concert at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where he’ll play nearly all of the oddball 1977 LP The Beach ...

Al Jardine didn’t sense good vibrations from Mike Love. The Beach Boys co-founder revealed that he wasn’t impressed by his bandmate’s speech at Brian Wilson’s funeral on Aug. 6. According to Rolling ...