The Beach Boys leader, whose death was announced on Wednesday, was a brilliant writer, arranger and producer whose ambitions propelled his band — and contemporaries like the Beatles — into the future.

The Beach Boys‘ songs were great, but they didn’t have a tremendous amount of influence on mainstream music like The Beatles had. Very few mainstream groups could be classified as Beach Boys wannabes.

The music world lost one of its most brilliant and influential minds today, as Beach Boy Brian Wilson just passed away at 82 following a battle with dementia. In a statement on his official Instagram ...

The Beach Boys had their earliest success singing about surfing, girls, and cars. They evolved into much more as Brian Wilson began experimenting with using the recording studio as an instrument and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The musical world lost a giant with news Wednesday that Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader, had died. He was 82. Headphones on, stereo up. The Beach Boys' ...

Through the years, Beach Boy Brian Wilson has given songs to other artists and even produced some of them. The Beach Boys may have discarded them, or the songs weren’t suitable for any of the ...

The Beach Boys legend, Brian Wilson, shared insight into his music before his June 2025 death. The songwriter wasn't shy about his ridicule of his own music, but some of the biggest clues on his ...