The Beach Boys founder who helped created the "sun & surf" soundtrack for the American summer has a new album, a new tour, and an acclaimed film bio, "Love & Mercy"

Brian Wilson's friends and fellow celebrities, including Nancy Sinatra, are remembering the music icon in social media posts.

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within two days of each other. Each was 82.

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 summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists,