Let's look at his best songs with the Beach Boys. ... He was a genius. The songwriter who gave us so many hits and brilliance with the Beach Boys and beyond died at the age of 82 on Wednesday.

Brian Wilson, musical genius and founder of the Beach Boys, died today (Wednesday, June 11, 2025), so in honor of him, here is an article of the 40 greatest Beach Boys songs that I wrote for ...

Brian Wilson's best songs exemplify the Beach Boys songwriter's impact and influence on pop music and culture.

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.” The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on ...

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.

"Here’s to the man who changed the summer season forever," the Beach Boys wrote in an Instagram post about the tribute for ...

Brian Wilson, musical genius behind the Beach Boys, dies at 82 June 11, 2025 Updated Wed., June 11, 2025 at 9:11 p.m. Brian Wilson performs the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" in concert at the Masonic ...

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 ...

His father, a frustrated songwriter who sold heavy machinery, was a "tyrant and heavy drinker" and abused Brian physically and emotionally. Brian was a musical prodigy, teaching himself piano and ...