Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Wilson, whose “teenage symphonies to God” made him the poet laureate of adolescent heartbreak as a founding member of The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Raised in the Los Angeles area by an abusive father, Brian found refuge in music. In 1961, the teenager started a garage band with ...

Brian Wilson's genius had a lasting impact on culture and music. The Beach Boys co-founding member was responsible for writing and producing the band's timeless hits, like "God Only Knows" and "Good ...

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. He was 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 ...

The death of the poet laureate of adolescent heartbreak was announced by his family on Wednesday: “We are at a loss for words right now.” By Roy Trakin Brian Wilson, whose “teenage symphonies to God” ...

By mid-decade, Murry Wilson had been displaced and Brian, who had been running the band’s recording sessions almost from the start, was in charge, making the Beach Boys the rare group of the time to ...

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys before being pulled down a rabbit hole of despair and depression ...

The Beach Boys’ music was like an ongoing party, with Wilson as host and wallflower. He was a tall, shy man, partially deaf (allegedly because of beatings by his father, Murry Wilson), with a sweet, ...