Brian Wilson was a troubled genius who made so many people happy but had far too much sadness in his life already.

I'll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of ...

Who knows what really happened to Brian Wilson? By the time modern audiences came to know and love his work, something was deeply, observably amiss within the mind and body of the California-born ...

A couple days ago, we lost pop music visionary Brian Wilson. Since the news of his passing, there’s been a massive outpour of admiration for the late Beach Boy. Yesterday, Grammy nominated producer ...

The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...

From simple surf rock to complex orchestral pop, the number one Beach Boy had a tremendous impact on music, culture, and the ...

It's not rare to see Wilson's bright, sunny Southern California music with The Beach Boys used to contrast dark moments on ...

Saying farewell to Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys visionary who created a perfect tableau of Southern California heartbreak ...

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We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most classic songs hits our tympanic membrane? Even his most sorrowful songs — and ...

Brian Wilson spent most of his life revered as one of the great songwriters of the rock’n’roll era, a reputation built ...

We’re picking up sad vibrations. But how traumatized can we feel, once the first few notes of any of Brian Wilson’s most ...