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Brian Wilson Wrote the California Dream, but He Didn’t Live It
An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.
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ft.com
Brian Wilson, Beach Boys musician, 1942-2025
He popularised a California surfing soundtrack before taking rock ’n’ roll to experimental places with ‘Pet Sounds’
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aljazeera.com
Beach Boys visionary leader Brian Wilson dies at age 82
Wilson’s genius for melody and arrangements inspired the songs Good Vibrations and California Girls.
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theguardian.com
Brian Wilson obituary
Leader of the Beach Boys who found fame with hymns to California beach culture and developed into a musician of outstanding range and imagination
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nytimes.com
Brian Wilson’s Life in Photos
The Beach Boys leader was one of pop music’s most acclaimed visionaries, whose creative success was tempered by personal battles.
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Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful music
He was the Beach Boys’ resident genius, seeping melancholy into even peppy teenybopper hits. Beyond all the myths about his life, that brilliance is still intoxicating
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Brian Wilson Wrote the California Dream, but He Didn’t Live It
An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.
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Brian Wilson and Beach Boys’ Style Showed What California Living Looked Like
In Pendleton shirts and khakis, Mr. Wilson and the Beach Boys showed the world what easy Southern California living looked like.
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Endless summer: how Brian Wilson soundtracked California
The late Beach Boys musician created a sound that became synonymous with the state’s breezy, laidback vibe
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‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson
From memories of photoshoots and telephone calls with the late Beach Boy, to appraisals of his complex but pure music, Guardian readers pay tribute to a great