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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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mercoledì 11 giugno 2025·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’
mercoledì 11 giugno 2025·theguardian.com
Twelve of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs – from surf to psychedelia and beyond
Elaborating classic pop and doo-wop into divinely beautiful and inimitable hitmaking, these are some of the late musician’s most unmistakable masterpieces

mercoledì 11 giugno 2025·

scmp.com

Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, surf rock poet, dies at 82

Hits like Surfin’ USA’, ‘I Get Around’, ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ and ‘Surfer Girl’ turned the group into America’s biggest selling band.

mercoledì 11 giugno 2025·

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.

mercoledì 11 giugno 2025·

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

giovedì 12 giugno 2025·

theguardian.com

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

giovedì 12 giugno 2025·

nytimes.com

How “Pet Sounds” Became the Beach Boys Masterpiece

Brian Wilson’s 1966 masterpiece is now considered a crowning achievement of music. The album’s reputation grew over time.

giovedì 12 giugno 2025·

nytimes.com

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.

giovedì 12 giugno 2025·

economist.com

Brian Wilson and the bliss of bubble-gum pop

The hitmaker and member of the Beach Boys left an inimitable catalogue of breezy doo-wop

venerdì 13 giugno 2025·

nytimes.com

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.

venerdì 13 giugno 2025·

theguardian.com