AP PHOTOS: Beach Boys visionary leader and summer's poet laureate Brian Wilson

Members of The Beach Boys, from left, Mike Love, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston, pose with their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, during a ceremony in Los Angeles on Dec. 30, 1980. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon, File)

Posted Wednesday, June 11, 2025 3:43 pm

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

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