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When someone with talent as prodigious and unique as Brian Wilson’s dies, they take their talent with them,” writes.
The surfboard paddle out in Huntington Beach on International Surfing Day commemorated the legendary musician who died June ...
Chunks of work by the Beach Boys’ founding genius went unpublished during his tumultuous life. Here’s a look at his phases ...
The Beach Boys were led by Brian Wilson. Indeed, Brian Wilson was the Beach Boys. He largely wrote, performed, and produced ...
“Woudn’t It Be Nice” reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, while its follow-up single, “God Only Knows,” hit No. 39 ...
Wilson died at age 82 on June 11NEED TO KNOWBeach Boy Al Jardine remembers the last time he spoke with Brian WilsonJardine ...
Following Brian Wilson’s passing, The Beach Boys score initial top 10 hits on Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart with ...
As a Bay Area DJ, Sly Stone slipped Bob Dylan and the Beatles into R&B playlists, foreshadowing the genre-blurring of his own music. “He was always trying to mix up boundaries,” says Sheffield.
There was an odd symmetry to the near-simultaneous deaths of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson at age 82 last week. “Both of them poets of summer,” Rob Sheffield says in the new episode of Rolling ...
I made Brian Wilson sad once. I didn’t mean to. We were doing a radio interview, the first time I’d ever spoken to him, and I was so excited that I’d spent the entire morning ...
I Quit is ostensibly a break-up record, but even when Danielle, Este and Alana sing about heartache, they find it hard to ...