Most cutting of all, Mike Love - Wilson's co-writer on many of The Beach Boys' biggest hits - damned Smile as "a whole album ...

Brian Wilson obituary: Troubled genius who wrote most of The Beach Boys' hits. Image source, Reuters. 11 June 2025. Brian Wilson's work with The Beach Boys made him one of pop music's true geniuses.

His father, a frustrated songwriter who sold heavy machinery, was a "tyrant and heavy drinker" and abused Brian physically ...

Melinda Wilson, who helped resurrect the career of her husband and Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson, died at home in Beverly Hills on Tuesday at age 77. Jan. 30, 2024 It all started in Hawthorne ...

“When I was around 10 or 12 years old,” Brian Wilson said, “my mom and I were walking to the market one day and a dog started barking at us. When I asked my mom, ‘Why is that dog barking at us?’ she ...

Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82. He influenced generations of musicians with his innovative approach to studio production, complex vocal harmonization and genre-bending compositions. Host ...

Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson died at 82 after a period of "respiratory arrest," meaning he stopped breathing while his ...

Brian Wilson, the musical visionary who captured the optimism of early 1960s youth culture as leader of the Beach Boys and crafted some of the most stylistically adventurous pop music of the era ...

Weeks after Beach Boys founding member Brian Wilson died at 82, the factors that contributed to his June 11 death have been ...

Brian Wilson died today. He was 82 years old. I have been asked to write a column that sums up his impact on modern music. The problem is that this is impossible.

The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's greatest songwriters and producers. Here are NPR's best interviews ...

Brian Wilson's work with The Beach Boys made him one of pop music's true geniuses. His songs, including Surfin' USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows, have become ...