Brian Wilson, the influential pop musician who co-founded the the Beach Boys and wrote such hit songs as "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around," and "God Only Knows," has died at 82. His family announced ...

Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, an inventor of what would be called the surf rock sound of the 1960s, a profound and influential voice of the era’s adolescent experience and one of the ...

Brian Wilson, a founding member and the visionary guiding force of the Beach Boys, has died. Wilson was 82. News of Wilson’s passing was made public on Wednesday morning by the pop music legend’s ...

Corrections & clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly associated a song with the Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” album. Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain unreleased. By Bob Mehr Though Brian Wilson was one of pop’s most studied ...

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 ...

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Brian Wilson, the brilliant musician who codified the California teen lifestyle in a series of ’60s hits by his band the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82. In a post shared on Instagram, his family ...