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The Beach Boys mastermind has been the subject of pop scholarship and major boxed sets, but some corners of his oeuvre remain ...
The already-announced Front List series of events at the McEwan Hall features such names as Nicola Sturgeon, Maggie O’Farrell ...
Darian Sahanaja, a crucial part of Brian Wilson's band since 1999, shares his thoughts about the late Beach Boy's brilliant ...
As the Beach Boys sang “house,” the song, “All Summer Long,” didn’t just change chords — in a luscious instant, it ascended ...
Brian Wilson was a troubled genius who made so many people happy but had far too much sadness in his life already.
A couple days ago, we lost pop music visionary Brian Wilson. Since the news of his passing, there’s been a massive outpour of admiration for the late Beach Boy. Yesterday, Grammy nominated producer ...
Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social ...
Brian Wilson was troubled and fragile and undeniably brilliant, driven to make music of surpassing beauty, complexity and ...
Brian Wilson, cofounder of The Beach Boys and the creative force behind the group’s surf sound, orchestral arrangements and ...
Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.
Sometimes there are strange symmetries in death, as in life. The twin passings of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson this week brought that into sharp relief.
“When I was around 10 or 12 years old,” Brian Wilson said, “my mom and I were walking to the market one day and a dog started ...