LOS ANGELES " Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California " as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana. Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson's exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:42AM on June 12, 2025