I made Brian Wilson sad once. I didn’t mean to. We were doing a radio interview, the first time I’d ever spoken to him, and I was so excited that I’d spent the entire morning organizing nearly every ...

Brian Wilson, the prodigious visionary engine behind the Beach Boys, composer of “teenage symphonies to God,” the big, gentle, sweet-voiced soul whose music touched generations, has died at 82. It’s a ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime ...