Brian Wilson, best known as one of the Beach Boys, who has died aged 82, was a brilliant writer of evocative songs about the surf who later became beset by emotional problems which kept him in bed ...

Although Dennis was the only one of the Wilson boys who actually surfed, they named their new group the Beach Boys, and later, after they hit the big time, the band played homage to Dick Dale by ...

“The three Wilsons are finally back together,” Vail, 81, tells Rolling Stone. Brian’s bandmates and siblings in the Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson, died in 1983 and 1998 ...

The three Wilson brothers, their cousin Love and their friend Jardine officially formed the band in 1961. As Jardine referenced, Carl Wilson died in 1998, while Dennis Wilson died in 1983.

Dennis Wilson and Carl Wilson Brian's brothers, Dennis and Carl, were born in 1944 and 1946, respectively. All of the brothers gained international recognition for their band, the Beach Boys.

From then on, Wilson wanted to be a part of Manson’s following and introduced him to friends and family. “This is Charlie,” Dennis would say, upon introduction. “He is the wizard, man.

Brian Wilson’s ambition took the Beach Boys into territory far beyond the simple pleasures of their early hits — transcendent, eccentric and destructive. They seemed to live out every fantasy ...

By the late ’60s, Dennis started contributing more as a writer and co-writer—mostly with songwriting collaborators Steve Kalinich and Gregg Jakobson—and left behind a collection of songs ...

Among the original Beach Boys, only Dennis Wilson, second from right, actually surfed. But Brian Wilson, second from left, defined the group’s sound and much of its look.

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.