When the Beach Boys started back in 1961, they seemed like little more than a novelty surf band that would vanish from memory by the following summer. But 64 years later, against all odds, their saga remains ongoing. They survived surf music falling out of style, severe mental illness, musical …
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A l Jardine is feeling a little uneasy. It’s about five hours until a concert at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where he’ll play nearly all of the oddball 1977 LP The Beach Boys Love You with veteran members of Brian Wilson‘s touring band. Despite being a …
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Two months after the death of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys legend was laid to rest at Los Angeles’ Westwood Memorial Park. His daughter Carnie Wilson, singer of the Nineties trio Wilson Phillips, wrote a heartfelt post on Instagram about her father’s burial. “Today we laid my Daddy to rest,” …
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Two weeks after the death of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys legend’s cause of death has been revealed. The Los Angeles County Department of Health’s death certificate, first obtained by TMZ, reveals that Wilson’s primary cause of death was “respiratory arrest,” with sepsis and cystitis listed as contributing factors. According …
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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 Stone Music Now. “Both chroniclers of the American dream in California. Both from pretty much …
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The last time I saw Brian Wilson was in March of this year. I’d been going to visit him every few months or so since his wife, Melinda, died in 2024. Brian had quit touring two years earlier, so he was pretty much in retirement mode. We spent time watching …
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Mike Love paid tribute to his cousin and Beach Boys co-founder, Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday, at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York on Thursday. “I especially must thank my cousin Brian Wilson,” Love said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “My first cousin by blood but …
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Time fades away, but Neil Young never does. He’s been on a like-a-hurricane live roll lately with his ferocious new band the Chrome Hearts, who make their studio debut on Talkin to the Trees. The band came together fast last year, after Neil’s amazing spring tour with his old outlaw …
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Bruce Springsteen posted a heartfelt tribute to the Beach Boys‘ Brian Wilson, who died at the age of 82. “Brian Wilson was the most musically inventive voice in all of pop, with an otherworldly ear for harmony,” Springsteen wrote on Instagram. “He was also the visionary leader of America’s greatest …
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There’s been an outpouring of grief since news arrived that Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to the Beach Boys legend, dropping a cover of “I Get Around.” Armstrong shared his rendition of the 1964 classic on Instagram, which sonically veers …
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