Brian Wilson, the tormented genius of the Beach Boys
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If Brian Wilson was able to touch the sublime by capturing the immense joy of youth and the suicidal sadness that can afflict it, it is because he himself lived permanently in this heightened world of emotions. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
A brilliant musician and a fragile man, Brian Wilson, who died at the age of 82 on Wednesday, June 11, brought the Beach Boys to the top of 20th-century pop, on a par with the Beatles.
No American band has had such a broad influence on pop as the Beach Boys. World famous and still listened to, the Californian "beach boys" owe everything to their founder: Brian Wilson, who died on June 11 at the age of 82, forged the sound of a group so influential that NASA sent their music into space to encounter other worlds, like that of Mozart, Strauss, and the Beatles.
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