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Beach Boys Founder Brian Wilson Suffering From Dementia as Reps Seek Conservatorship

Brian Wilson is the subject of a new conservatorship petition that says the Beach Boys founder has dementia and needs care after his wife's death

Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, the wildly talented but troubled genius who co-founded the legendary group and composed most of its landmark Pet Sounds album, is suffering from dementia at the age of 81, court filings obtained by Rolling Stone confirm. It states that Wilson, the writer behind dozens of Top 40 hits including “I Get Around,” “Help Me, Rhonda” and “Good Vibrations,” would find it “emotionally very stressful” as well as physically difficult to attend any court hearings in person. “He is easily distracted” and “often makes spontaneous irrelevant or incoherent utterances,” the declaration from Dr. Stephen S. Marmer, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, states.

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