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Al Jardine Pays Tribute to Beach Boys Bandmate Brian Wilson: ‘My Brother in Spirit’
Al Jardine, co-founder of the Beach Boys, paid tribute to his bandmate Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday at 82-years-old.
“Brian Wilson, my friend, my classmate, my football teammate, my Beach Boy bandmate and my brother in spirit, I will always feel blessed that you were in our lives for as long as you were,” Jardine said in a statement to Rolling Stone. In March, Jardine announced that he would be relaunching Brian’s backing group, who have been inactive since Wilson stopped performing in 2022, as the Pet Sounds Band. Upon his entry into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000, Paul McCartney — who delivered the induction speech — called Wilson “one of the great American geniuses,” and thanked him “sir, for making me cry.”
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