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Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder, Dies
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Posted By: Dreadnought, 6/11/2025 1:38:23 PM

Brian Wilson, the brilliant musician who codified the California teen lifestyle in a series of ’60s hits by his band the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82. In a post shared on Instagram, his family announced Wilson’s death. “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away,” they wrote. “We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.” They signed off with the phrase “Love & Mercy,” which was the breakout single from WIlson’s first solo album

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Catherine 6/11/2025 1:45:04 PM (No. 1962922)
Aw. He was so talented. I think he's the one who lost hearing in one ear when his dad hit him. Like many very talented people, he had problems in life but his genius at writing songs was never diminished. Rest in peace.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 6/11/2025 2:09:56 PM (No. 1962926)
A member of my family tree, a 4th cousin. A talented but troubled individual. Naturally, being related, I have quite a bit of the Beach Boys' catalog in my cd collection. I've seen the Love/Johnston iteration of the band several times in recent years but never got to see them with Brian. Guess I'll spend the rest of this afternoon playing some of the old albums.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: thefield 6/11/2025 2:18:52 PM (No. 1962930)
I believe this was coming. Reports had him in a bad way. Surprised I outlived him.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: crankyyankee 6/11/2025 2:35:13 PM (No. 1962938)
RIP all 3 Wilson brothers! Thanks for all the great listening for the past 60+ years!! An aside to fellow Ldotters, Brian’s autobiography is a great read.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DaBigGuy 6/11/2025 2:41:32 PM (No. 1962941)
#2, I'm sorry you didn't get to see them with Brian. I was fortunate enough to do so at their 50th anniversary tour about 15 years ago. They played from 7 pm until around 11 pm, with a 45 minute intermission. Great show! Although part of the venue was uncovered, very few people left, even though it started raining later in the evening. People took shelter as they could under concession stand awnings and such, and stayed until the end of the show. Fabulous memory of a timeless group. As #1 said, Brian was a songwriting genius, and the songs had an appeal covering generations of fans. RIP Brian.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 6/11/2025 2:48:24 PM (No. 1962943)
Thanks Brian. Your music made life a lot happier for our generation.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/11/2025 2:49:42 PM (No. 1962944)
The Beach Boys (Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine, later with Bruce Johnston) were arguably the most important American band of the 'Sixties. Had there not been a Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in 1966, there might not have been a Beatles' Sgt. Peppers in 1967. Paul McCartney, two days older than Brian, and a friend, perceived a friendly competition with Brian. They inspired each other to some timeless music. On a round trip from his farm on Scotland's Kintyre Peninsula to London, Paul spent each leg of the trip listening to one of the two albums (Pet Sounds, Pepper) on repeat. They still hold up! Brian's problems with mental illness and drugs were in some ways caused by the enormous creative pressure he was under. McCartney had an equal songwriting partner in Lennon. Brian mostly had himself. Something had to give. Brian discovered cocaine and gluttony. The band actually had to fire him when in the early '80s he hit 340 pounds. Then Dr. Eugene Landy gave him an assist out of the life he'd been living, and he responded by turning his life around. He even completed the abandoned Smile album with a new team of musicians twenty years ago. The Beach Boys surprised the world by graduating from songs about surfing, girls, and cars, and creating the stunning Pet Sounds, which is the album I've heard more than any other (more than one thousand times since 1966). That album never gets old. It's one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Then Brian wrote another song for the Smile project that the rest of the group thought might be the biggest, most expensive flop ever recorded, but Brian persisted. There were many recording sessions for this one song, utilizing LA's Wrecking Crew, including Glen Campbell. You may have heard it ... "Good Vibrations." Ah, Brian. Rest in peace.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Omen55 6/11/2025 3:04:42 PM (No. 1962949)
But CA no longer reflected in the songs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: danoso 6/11/2025 3:12:14 PM (No. 1962955)
Genius gets thrown around way too much imho. That said, Brian Wilson was a musical genius.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: OTHunter 6/11/2025 3:14:58 PM (No. 1962957)
Have been dreading this news for literally decades. Favorite member of my favorite band, hands down. All American when our nation was arguably at its apex. Joyful? Yep. Melancholy? At times, yes (In My Room, Don't Worry Baby, The Warmth of the Sun, to name just a few). Such a hard father, his. Such a tender soul, his. Taking on Lennon/McCartney/Martin (producer) was too much for any lad of 22, period. Enter the drug scene, escapism. We'll never know how high BW might have soared without the drugs, but what we got instead was very special for a lot longer than most of us thought possible. I met Brian briefly pre-concert with Al Jardine in FL back in '18. Wonderful! May he RIP and be reunited with his family. Love and Mercy, y'all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/11/2025 3:20:07 PM (No. 1962960)
This one will touch you: "'Til I Die" (1971, from the album Surf's Up). I always regarded Brian as the sad Beach Boy. "How deep is the ocean? I lost my way." Been a tough week for music fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46IQu0yuJzU
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Bogasso 6/11/2025 3:43:23 PM (No. 1962967)
American Graffiti’s John Milner didn’t have much use for “that surfin’ s***!”, but I liked that character and The Beach Boys. Their sound makes me think about the sunny beaches, catchin’ waves, cruising and thirty cent per gallon leaded premium to dump in your hot rod to go there. It’s hard to believe that California was once as their music described.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: ladydawgfan 6/11/2025 3:52:22 PM (No. 1962973)
Rest in peace, Brian. My favorite Beach Boys song will always be "The Warmth of the Sun."
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Amanoftwistsandturns 6/11/2025 3:57:51 PM (No. 1962976)
The Endless Summer has ended.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 6/11/2025 4:05:20 PM (No. 1962979)
Lots of wonderful songs, but apparently he lost his mind many decades ago. That's sad.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: DanvilleBill 6/11/2025 4:42:43 PM (No. 1962996)
My wife grew up on the beaches of Southern California. The Beach Boys were the #1 favorite of she and all her beach buddies, male and female. Her love of their music lasted until the last year of her life, 8 years ago. Like her, I also was, and still am, a big fan of the group. I'll be playing their CDs all week. Especially Pet Sounds.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Italiano 6/11/2025 5:17:41 PM (No. 1963005)
Truly a musical genius, but as noted, Brian had his issues. There was a popular bumper sticker going around in 70’s Beverly Hills: “Warning. I brake for Brian Wilson.” RIP
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Rumblehog 6/11/2025 7:22:09 PM (No. 1963038)
He was the most talented songwriters of his day. Some would even say a, "musical genius." Even the storied LA studio musicians, "The Wrecking Crew," admired Brian Wilson's ability to not only play a variety of instruments exceptionally well, but for his singing/harmonizing with his brothers, and his sound engineering skills as well. He knew exactly what he wanted and would go to great lengths and multiple "takes" until he heard it. On his song, "Good Vibrations," he wouldn't hear what he wanted until they'd gone through 17 Studio Sessions (with the Wrecking Crew), done 26 Takes, and used up 90 hours of recording time, yet, if there is one song that encapsulates the mood of America in the 1960's it would undoubtedly be, "Good Vibrations." The Beatles' songs will be remembered as nice McCartney melodies sung to Lennon psychobabble lyrics, and eventually forgotten, but play "Good Vibrations" and the listener travels back in time to the time they first heard the song and how they felt at the time... then they start singing along. That's a powerful testament to the amount of work that went into the song's making. Thank you, Brian, for making so many good musical memories for so many American kids growing up.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 6/11/2025 7:53:35 PM (No. 1963041)
He was a part of the soundtrack of my youth. I listened to top-40 radio through all of it, through university.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: SweetPea3 6/11/2025 9:45:51 PM (No. 1963064)
I play my Beach Boys CDs and I smell Sea & Ski and Coppertone.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Strike3 6/12/2025 9:29:55 AM (No. 1963114)
RIP Brian. You and the boys started an entire culture back in the sixties. The music was fun and upbeat and the entire country learned what a surfboard was.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: ramona 6/12/2025 11:51:19 AM (No. 1963180)
What a talented, complex man. I rewatched the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors for Brian Wilson. Knowing he is now gone, it was very emotional to watch this again. Thankfully we still have the music and the memories of hearing it in the beginning. Ramona (the Pest)
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/12/2025 12:49:32 PM (No. 1963207)
By 1971, Brian was coming to the end of his creative period with the Beach Boys, and contributed two songs to the LP Surf's Up, "'Til I Die" and "Surf's Up." (Brian's friend Van Dyke Parks wrote the lyrics to "Surf's Up.") In '71, Brian was still under 30-years-old, could sing in the buttery nasal falsetto he was famed for, and the drugs hadn't yet taken him off his game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOYQ8qfFng (Surf's Up, 1971) A couple of decades ago I saw an interview that had been done with Brian recently. On 22 November 1963, the world lost Aldous Huxley, C.S. Lewis, and President Kennedy. That evening, Brian and Mike Love wrote one of the Beach Boys' classic songs, "The Warmth of the Sun" for JFK. Brian said in aabout 2000, "It's not every day that JFK gets killed." Saying that, he sounded quite a bit like Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) in Caddyshack. As I mentioned earlier, Brian and a new team of singers and musicians completed Smile in 2004, some thirty-seven years later than he had planned. The Beach Boys, of course, were to have done this, but Brian couldn't complete the project, and only bits and pieces emerged, including the iconic "Good Vibrations." For legal reasons, every song had to be redone. But it was redone, and everyone did an exceptional job, even Brian, whose voice was evident on every song. The only catch was that Brian's singing voice, ravaged by drug addiction and age, sounded like a very, very musical Carl Spackler. 1967 was far gone. Well, we're all glad Brian made it to this week. He could have departed fifty years ago, but he got himself together and kept playing. Brian Wilson is one of my generation's heroes. We all loved him.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/12/2025 3:18:02 PM (No. 1963266)
One more from not long ago ... "Surf's Up" with Jeff Beck and Brian Wilson (and other Beach Boys). The choral "Our Prayer," the first song from Smile, kicks off this performance. May God rest both Jeff and Brian. They gave us so much great music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1ZZPsH328 (Surf's Up -- Jeff Beck, Brian Wilson)
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