Brian Wilson, the influential pop musician who co-founded the the Beach Boys and wrote such hit songs as "Good Vibrations," "I Get Around," and "God Only Knows," has died at 82. His family announced the news Wednesday on social media and said in a statement, "We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world." The family did not disclose how or when Wilson died
I didn't appreciate the Beach Boys much when I was a kid. They weren't hip enough or something. But as I got older and listened more carefully to those amazing harmonies, I grew to love them. It was like discovering a whole new band. Brian's long-awaited completion of a reworked SMiLE album in 2004 was a late-career triumph too.