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Brian Wilson Dies: Beach Boys Co-Founder & Singer, Acclaimed And Troubled Genius Of Rock Generation Was 82


Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, an inventor of what would be called the surf rock sound of the 1960s, a profound voice of the era’s adolescent experience and one of universally acclaimed geniuses of the rock generation, has died at age 82. His family announced the death on social media. “We are heartbroken […]

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