Brian Wilson dies, pop visionary and leader of The Beach Boys, at 82 years | Culture

Maybe you would have to let Bob Dylan speak: “My mother … that ear. I should donate it to Smithsonian.” Also that he gave his opinion Neil Young: “It’s like Mozart, Chopin or Beethoven. His music will last forever.” Stevie Wonder also adds: “What he did was incredible.” They are opinions that have a lot of value because they were made with the protagonist, Brian Wilson, in life, and not in the heat of what has just happened. Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys and gifted creator of pop melodies, has died at age 82, as his family has communicated with this text: “It hurts us to announce the death of our beloved father, Brian Wilson. We are missing the words. Please respect our privacy in this moment of mourning. We share our pain with the world. With love and compassion.”

Only for the arduous elaboration of the album Pet Soundsalbum published in 1966 by The Beach Boys, Wilson would already deserve to appear among the great pop composers, an album that Paul McCartney described as “the best pop album of all time.” In Pet Sounds Wilson looked inside to portray his own anxiety, something that would mark not only his work if not his existence: a man in search of love and acceptance.

Wilson was also a complicated man, with extreme sensitivity that could be disconcerting when it was melted with psychedelic drugs.

Wilson was born in Inglewood, south of California, in 1942. Since childhood he stood out for a perfect ear, since he could memorize and sing the songs he listened to the radio. He soon learned to play the piano and make versions of Doo-Wop songs and the first rock and roll. His younger brothers, Carl and Dennis, fell in love with R&B, rock and roll, doo-wop and pop. Despite being partially deaf from an ear (possibly because of the aggression of a boy in the area), he and Carl joined his cousin Mike Love to form the Carl and the Passions Institute group, which Dennis later incorporated his friend to the Jardine to form the pendletons. They had been encouraged by Wilson’s father, Murry, with whom Wilson maintained a complex relationship; in 2024 a judge of a Los Angeles court accepted the petition of Wilson’s family to put the musician under tutelage because of the advanced dementia he suffered. Therefore, Wilson was guarded by which he had been, during most of his life, his publicist and manager, Jean Sievers, and for his business manager, Leeann Hard.

The request was made after the death of the artist’s wife, Melinda Wilson, at 77. At that time the family explained in the artist’s Instagram account: “After the death of Melinda, Brian’s beloved wife, after a careful consideration and consultation between Brian, his seven children, Gloria Ramos (his caregiver) and Brian’s doctors (and according to the family processes implemented by Brian and Melinda), let’s confirm that Leeann, representative of the Wilson family for a long time. Sievers will act as cotuores of Brian’s person.