The Beach Boys' leading man, Brian Wilson, picks his favourite songs with The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Ronettes, Chuck Berry ...

Brian Wilson may have been the mastermind behind every Beach Boys song, but it was always a thing of beauty when he hit on ...

The last time I saw Brian Wilson was in March of this year. I’d been going to visit him every few months or so since his wife, Melinda, died in 2024. Brian had quit touring two years earlier, so he ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

Brian Wilson, a two-time Grammy Award winner and steward of ecstatic, sobering pop music, died last Wednesday at the age of 82. Immediately, every social media feed imaginable flooded with anecdotes, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mike Love is honoring his late bandmate Brian Wilson — and shedding a few tears. During a show at the Meritage Resort in Napa, California, on Sunday, Oct. 12, Love, 84, one of the surviving members of ...