
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

Get The Magazine
The best in culture from a cultural icon. Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.
Subscribe Now
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

The Disney+ film will feature new interviews with the surviving band members, as well as a plethora of archival footage

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

Jay-Z, U2, Brian Wilson, Ariana Grande, SZA, and more vie in Original Songs category

Song comes off soundtrack for the documentary film Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, out on Nov. 26th.

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

“I play [the piano] when I’m happy or feeling sad. I love playing for people and I love playing alone when no one is listening,” singer says of upcoming solo LP

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