Composer, bass player, singer and Beach Boy Brian Wilson drew deep on American traditions. “Brian Wilson was an incredibly important musical figure,” said Jack Hamilton, a professor of Media Studies ...

Brian Wilson's talent had no bounds; hence, it is no surprise that he contributed to these three fairly off-brand tracks.

Brian Wilson’s legacy came into focus while the California riots raged. As the chief conceptualizer and composer of the California pop band the Beach Boys, Wilson put the idea of post-World War II all ...

Brian Wilson turned his suffering into sunny anthems, bringing joy to the rest of the world. A musical genius who detailed bright skies and blue waves, longing and solitude, inside orchestrated and ...

His music, by turns joyous and melancholy, wide-eyed and masterful, transformed the meaning of pop. Brian Wilson, 1968. It goes without saying that Brian Wilson, who died last week at the age of 82, ...

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 ...

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

It’s true: Brian Wilson, the cofounder and creative soul of the Beach Boys who died last week at the age of 82, didn’t surf. And for someone who cowrote a song called “I Get Around,” he didn’t really ...

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 ...

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Brian Wilson’s death provides another opportunity for a review of his creative output and artistic struggles. Both were a reflection, if indirectly, of the broader contradictory interaction between ...

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 ...