Following the death of Wilson last month, Love and his version of the band returns to Long Beach, where they played their ...

Today we laid my Daddy to rest,” Wilson’s daughter, Carnie, said. “It was incredibly difficult to see that happen.” ...

Nearly two months after his passing on June 11, 2025, Brian Wilson, co-founder and creative heart of The Beach Boys, was laid to rest in a private ceremony on August 6, 2025.

For Brian Wilson’s lengthy contributions to the tarnished monolith of 20th-century rock culture, neither he nor his work has ever sat easily within it. Wilson, the Beach Boys songwriter who died ...

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.

We will have much more on Brian Wilson, the music of The Beach Boys, and a solo song in our monthly In Memoriam feature, publishing July 1.

We lost two music luminaries this past week. Sly Stone and Brian Wilson died two days apart, both 82 years old, geniuses of vastly different musical persuasions whose periods of greatest ...

The music world is still in mourning as the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, one of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of pop music, died on Wednesday at age 82. His legacy will ...

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.

Brian Wilson was born in California in 1942. In his teens, he (along with brothers Dennis and Carl, cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine) started a band.