It's not rare to see Wilson's bright, sunny Southern California music with The Beach Boys used to contrast dark moments on film. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the opening of Roger & Me, Michael Moore's breakout documentary showing the crumbling of Flint, Michigan in the 1980s.

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs like "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations" helped define American pop music, has died.

There's been an outpouring of grief since news arrived that Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to the Beach Boys legend, dropping a cover of "I Get Around.