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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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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Paul McCartney has paid tribute to Brian Wilson following the death of the Beach Boys’ “musical genius.” “Brian had that mysterious sense of musical genius that made his songs so achingly special,” McCartney wrote on social media Thursday, the morning after Wilson’s death was announced. “The notes he heard in …
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Sting honored his hero Brian Wilson hours after news of his death during a concert in Germany Wednesday evening. While on stage, Sting played a guitar-backed rendition of the Beach Boys‘ “God Only Knows.” “Today, one of my heroes died, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys,” Sting said before his …
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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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