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"This album never got finished and these tracks will live on my drive in obscurity, but they’re really great," Jonathan Wilson wrote.
Brian Wilson was in the recording studio in April in a final photo taken months before his death. The Beach Boys founder's death at 82 years old was announced on Wednesday, June 11.
Brian Wilson played the last show of his career July 26, 2022, at the Pink Knob Music Theatre in Clarkson, Michigan.
Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers struggled to realize in their own lives.
Brian Wilson spent most of his life revered as one of the great songwriters of the rock’n’roll era, a reputation built primarily on the songs he wrote and recorded with the Beach Boys in the 1960s. Wilson emerged during the glory days of the record business,
Mick Fleetwood, Carnie Wilson, Elton John and more are sharing tributes to Brian Wilson following the death of the legendary Beach Boys cofounder.