Brian Wilson, Beach Boys leader and summer's poet laureate, dies at 82
FILE - Musician Brian Wilson poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on June 2, 2015. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader who helped compose and arrange “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and dozens of other summertime anthems and became one of the world’s most influential and admired musicians, has died at 82.
Wilson’s family posted news of his death to his website Wednesday. Further details weren’t immediately available. Since May 2024, Wilson had been under a court conservatorship to oversee his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson’s longtime representatives in charge.
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