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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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Share your tributes and memories of Brian Wilson
We would like to hear your memories of Brian Wilson – whether you met him, or appreciated his work as a musician
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‘He taught the world how to smile’: Brian Wilson bandmates pay tribute along with Bob Dylan, Elton John and more
Beach Boys members Al Jardine and Mike Love give lengthy tributes to late songwriter, with Jardine calling him a ‘humble musical giant’
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‘The joy shot out of his voice’: Ray Davies, Graham Nash and others on Brian Wilson’s songwriting genius
With the innocence of a child and the vision of a god, his craft was astonishing. From Jessica Pratt to Jim James and Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil, top musicians explain why he was…
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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.
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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