The Latest Breaking News from Brian Wilson

The band shaped 1960s American pop with hits such as Surfin’ USA, I Get Around and California Girls.

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TRIBUTE: The troubled musician was a genius whose work was the envy of generations of fellow artists. Fiona Sturges pays tribute, and recalls her encounter with Wilson where he told her about his fear of failure, his abusive father, and the voices in his head

Leader of the Beach Boys who found fame with hymns to California beach culture and developed into a musician of outstanding range and imagination

The LA-born actor also had roles in ‘Training Day’ and ‘Ozark’ and worked extensively on Broadway

The musical world has lost a giant

Keith Richard and Ronnie Wood are among the stars who have praised the singer, bass player, songwriter and producer after his death at 82.

Wilson saw the sublime in teeny-bopper surf songs and his studio wizardry changed popular music forever.

Rolling Stones legend Ronnie Wood has led the tributes to Beach Boys star Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday (11.06.25) at the age of 82.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.