
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder and Architect of Pop, Dead at 82
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder and one of pop music's greatest songwriters, has died at 82

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Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys co-founder and one of pop music's greatest songwriters, has died at 82

The Disney+ film leans heavily on the Sixties origins of Brian Wilson's band of brothers to mostly satisfying results

The Beach Boys founder, 81, was previously diagnosed with dementia. The conservatorship will be run by his longtime publicist and manager and his longtime business manager

Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford claims she’s owed $6.7 million

Track will appear on the musician’s upcoming solo effort, At My Piano

“I hope you dig listening to them as much as we did making them,” Wilson said, sharing a 1995 demo of “Desert Drive”

The performance aired on on CNN’s “Fourth in America Special”

After years battling mental illness and emotional instability, the Beach Boy staged a tour unlike any other

Al Jardine says a tour is in the works, but Mike Love and Brian Wilson say it’s far from confirmed

In the new episode of our series on Amazon Music, the Beach Boys explain the confusion and genius of their 1966 pop masterpiece — and how it nearly broke them