He captured the mystique and magic of California, carrying it around the world and across generations,” California Governor ...

The Beach Boys’ Sounds of Summer rockets to No. 32 on the U.K.'s Official Albums chart after Brian Wilson’s passing, marking ...

Carl was a very, very sensitive writer,” said Brian Wilson. “He was a sensitive person. He was a very good artist." ...

Brian Wilson was one of the most respected pop composers of the 20th century. His work with the Beach Boys helped shape the sound of the 1960s, and Pet Sounds earned a reputation as one of the most ...

“Little Bird” Unlike Carl, Dennis never wrote with Brian, who cited his brother’s Beach Boys song “Little Bird,” from the group’s 1968 album Friends, as a favorite.

/ 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 June 11 at age 82.

/ 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 June 11 at age 82.

Brian Wilson, the prodigious visionary engine behind the Beach Boys, composer of “teenage symphonies to God,” the big, gentle, sweet-voiced soul whose music touched generations, has died at 82.

But Brian Wilson was the high priest of pop music as the incarnation of religious feeling. We all have our favorite Brian Wilson songs, the ones that produce a particular swoon.

I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American Graffiti ...

Brian Wilson—who died on June 11th, aged 82—was one of three brothers in the group and wrote most of their songs. CLEAN-CUT, SMILING, wholesome—the Beach Boys ruled the American airwaves in ...