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Bruce Springsteen Says Without Brian Wilson There’d Be No ‘Racing in the Street’


Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, the icon who died at the age of 82.

“Brian Wilson was the most musically inventive voice in all of pop, with an otherworldly ear for harmony,” Springsteen wrote on Instagram. Springsteen’s statement echoes the many tributes that have come in following the news of Wilson’s death, from Paul McCartney(“I loved him, and was privileged to be around his bright shining light for a little while”) to Elton John(“the biggest influence on my songwriting ever”). There were also tributes from founding Beach Boy Al Jardine, and acto r John Stamos, who gigged with the group, off and on, for the past four decades.

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