Most cutting of all, Mike Love - Wilson's co-writer on many of The Beach Boys' biggest hits - damned Smile as "a whole album ...

Paul McCartney is paying tribute to music icon Brian Wilson following the death Wednesday of the Beach Boys co-founder.

"I thought he was going to get better," says Beach Boys co-founder Jardine, who had been hoping to have Wilson make a guest ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

Brian Wilson, the driving creative force behind the Beach Boys who endured abuse, mental illness and deafness in his right ...

The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's ...

And it only added to his tortured-genius lore when after his breakdown, in 1966, the Beach Boys released Brian Wilson's masterpiece, the first concept album, “Pet Sounds.” But his downward ...

On June 11, 2025, reports surfaced claiming that Brian Wilson, the songwriter and musician best known as a co-founder of the ...

Brian Wilson, the musical visionary who captured the optimism of early 1960s youth culture as leader of the Beach Boys and crafted some of the most stylistically adventurous pop music of the era ...

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with the Beach Boys before being pulled down by despair and depression in full public view, has died.

Depending on your age, taste, and life circumstances, you might see Brian Wilson as the sunny figurehead of youthful innocence; the tortured ideal of artistic integrity; the paragon of ...