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The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Dies at 82
- Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys and influential musician, died in 2025, as announced by his family.
- Wilson formed the band as a teenager in Inglewood, California, initially called the Pendletones, with his brothers Dennis and Carl.
- The Beach Boys gained fame with their surf-themed hits from 1962 to 1966, including multiple top-10 singles largely written and produced by Wilson.
- Wilson produced the influential 1966 album Pet Sounds, which has been hailed as a masterpiece akin to a spiritual symphony for young listeners and was honored in 2004 by being added to the Library of Congress for its cultural, historical, and artistic importance.
- Wilson’s health declined over decades, including a neurocognitive disorder revealed in 2024, but he maintained a solo career and influenced generations before his passing.
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On 11 June, at the age of 82, Brian Wilson died as a co-founder, songwriter, bass guitarist, and vocalist of The Beach Boys. In 2008, Wilson gave the only concert in Russia, a 100-person Moscow restaurant, and music producer Alexander Chepaurkin, who brought Wilson to Moscow, recalls how all of this became possible — and how he remembered one of the most influential musicians in the 20th century.
The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson – The Daily Sceptic
"I don’t mean to do a man down on the occasion of his death," says Professor James Alexander, "but the Beach Boys were either insanely cheerful, or maudlin with thin self-pity." Was Brian Wilson overrated? The post The Two-Stroke Engine of Brian Wilson appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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