Once and future Beach Boys Al Jardine and Brian Wilson look back on the eve of launching Something Great from '68, a tour ...

Brian Wilson always seemed to keep his ear to the ground for new songs and artists, which led him to develop an incredible ...

Spin, Cracked and more outlets have written about Wilson and “Norbit,” and Wilson's Wikipedia entry was recently updated to ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs helped define a revved-up era of American popular music, has died at age 82. Wilson's family announced his death on social media ...

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. He was 82.

The Beach Boys were founded in Hawthorne, Calif., in 1961 by brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Love, and school friend Jardine, per the band’s website.

As the Beach Boys began to skyrocket, Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown Raised in the Los Angeles area by an abusive father, Brian found refuge in music. In 1961, the teenager started a garage ...

The Beach Boys soon descended into an oldies act, out of touch with the radical ’60s, and Wilson withdrew into seclusion. Years of struggle, and late life validation for Brian Wilson ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs helped define a revved-up era of American popular music, has died at age 82. Wilson's family announced his death on social media ...

FILE - The Beach Boys, from left, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson and Mike Love, hold their trophies after being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in New York, Jan. 21, 1988.

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. He was 82.