Following the passing of visionary Brian Wilson, we take a look back at the band's unparalleled cultural legacy ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed ...

Clockwise from top left, The Beach Boys in 1964: Carl Wilson (1946 – 1998), Dennis Wilson (1944 – 1983), Brian Wilson, Al Jardine and Mike Love (Getty) ...

Brian Wilson was born June 20, 1942, two days after McCartney. His musical gifts were soon obvious, and as a boy he was playing piano and teaching his brothers to sing harmony. The Beach Boys started ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary leader of the Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82. (Source: CNN, Getty Images, Universal Music Group, Capitol Records/EMI, Capitol Records, Capitol Records/The Andy ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary leader of the Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82. (Source: CNN, Getty Images, Universal Music Group, Capitol Records/EMI, Capitol Records, Capitol Records/The Andy ...

Brian Wilson, the visionary leader of the Beach Boys, has died at the age of 82. (Source: CNN, Getty Images, Universal Music Group, Capitol Records/EMI, Capitol Records, Capitol Records/The Andy ...

(AP) - 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 ...

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 ...

Brian Wilson's early life and formation of Beach Boys. Brian Wilson was born June 20, 1942, in Inglewood, a Los Angeles suburb that would boom in the post-war years as a hub for everything from ...

Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs helped define a revved-up era of American popular music, has died at age 82. Wilson's family announced his death on social media ...