MOJO celebrates Brian Wilson: a true genius who hymned the American dream and its shadow flipside with raw spirituality and symphonic sophistication.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Fin Costello/Redferns On June 11, 2025, we lost Brian Wilson. He was 82, so the news wasn ...

Al Jardine’s endless summer officially began when he was 18 and co-founded The Beach Boys in 1961. It hasn’t stopped yet. “I’m still enjoying this too much to think of quitting,” said the 1988 Rock & ...

Wouldn’t it be nice? Beach Boys singer and co-founder Mike Love fought back tears over the weekend as he paid tribute to late bandmate Brian Wilson, who passed away in June at the age of 82. Brian ...

John Mason knew that Brian Wilson needed help – but it came at a high price. “Brian was in a weak mental state,” the entertainment lawyer, who once represented the fragile leader of the Beach Boys, ...

Wilson’s death follows a dementia diagnosis, which was announced last year when his wife died and his children moved to place ...

The 1985 documentary The Beach Boys: An American Band gives you a sense of the group's mainstream cachet at the time. In the first half of the film, four of the five founding Beach Boys — brothers ...

A couple days ago, we lost pop music visionary Brian Wilson. Since the news of his passing, there's been a massive outpour of admiration for the late Beach Boy. Yesterday, Grammy nominated producer ...

Al Jardine didn’t sense good vibrations from Mike Love. The Beach Boys co-founder revealed that he wasn’t impressed by his bandmate’s speech at Brian Wilson’s funeral on Aug. 6. According to Rolling ...

Brian Wilson is one of the most talented musicians of all time. Aside from being on par and just as good as Paul McCartney and Paul Simon, Wilson had a talent that matched classical composers such as ...