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Beach Boy's Brian Wilson dies

Brian Wilson obituary: Troubled genius who wrote most of The Beach Boys' hits

His songs, including Surfin' USA, California Girls, I Get Around, Good Vibrations and God Only Knows, have become classics.

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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys cofounder and 'God Only Knows' genius, dies at 82

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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder and Architect of Pop, Dead at 82

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Mike Love celebrates Brian Wilson and George Clinton shines at 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala

Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last Thursday night, just one day after it was announced that his inimitable bandmate Brian Wilson had died.

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The Doobie Brothers, Beach Boys’ Mike Love, George Clinton and more inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

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Brian Wilson, Frederick Forsyth, Uriah Rennie, Edmund White

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The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson Dies at 82—64 Years After Forming Iconic Band Inside Humble Family Home in California

During his high school years, Wilson formed a group known as The Pendeltones, which would later become The Beach Boys, alongside his brothers, their cousin, Mike Love, and a classmate, Al Jardine.

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Iconic '80s Rocker Going Viral With 'God Only Knows' in Memory of Brian Wilson

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Unpicking the Beach Boys’ classic that confirmed Brian Wilson’s creative genius

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Brian Wilson, the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, dies at 82

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with the Beach Boys before being pulled down by despair and depression in full public view, has died.

Brian Wilson Wrote the California Dream, but He Didn’t Live It

An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.