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Brian Wilson, Genius of Pop Music, Dead at 82
The Beach Boys co-founder was a pillar of modern singing and songwriting.
The Beach Boys began as the Pendletones — a group that included Wilson, his two brothers Dennis and Carl, their cousin Mike Love, and classmate Al Jardine — and released their first single, “Surfin’,” in 1961, which reached No. “I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good,” Wilson said at the Beach Boys’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1988. Wilson entered a period of relative seclusion following the auteur triumph of Pet Sounds, which included a highly publicized and controversial business relationship with the psychologist Eugene Landy.
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