The founder of Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, dead at 82

Brian Wilson, one of the founding members of the Beach Boys, died at the age of 82.

“We are disconsolate by announcing that our beloved Father Brian Wilson has died,” says a statement on Wilson Instagram. “We are lost by words at this time. Please respect our privacy at this time, since our family is afflicted. We realize that we are sharing our pain with the world. Love and mercy”

Wilson’s family did not specify how Wilson died. He had been diagnosed with schizoofective disorder and mild bipolar disorder, and since 1965 he had experienced regular auditory hallucinations.

In 2024, a judge discovered that Wilson should be put in conservation due to his “great neurocognitive disorder.”

The creative driving force behind the Beach Boys, Wilson wrote and co -written what would become some of the most memorable songs in the history of the United States during his life. In total, Wilson had his hand in more than two dozen of 40 best hits in the course of his life, most of which arrived in the 1960s, including “good vibrations”, “Surfin ‘USA”, “Fun, fun, fun, fun”, “I enter me” and “Barbara Ann”.

“I wanted to write cheerful music that would make other people feel good,” Wilson said during the induction of Beach Boys in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. “That is what I tried to do.”

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But there are little doubt that Wilson’s lasting legacy will be “Pet Sounds” of 1966, the Rolling Stone album once was the second best of all time. Wilson was inspired to write “Pet Sounds” after listening to “Rubber Soul” of the Beatles, who opened his eyes to what could be a completely formed album. Later, Wilson said he told himself: “If I ever do something in my life, I’m going to do that good album.”

As well as “Rubber Soul” pushed Wilson to make “Pet Sounds”, “Pet Sounds” pushed the Beatles to make his most famous album: “Sgt. Lonely Hearts Club Band” de Pepper. “

“Without ‘pet sounds’, ‘Sgt. Pepper’ would never have happened,” said the Beatles producer, George Martin. “‘Pepper’ was an attempt to match ‘pet sounds’.”

Wilson was born on June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, California, and grew up in the nearby city of Hawthorne for his parents, Murry Wilson and Audree Neva. The older of three children, all of whom would eventually join the Beach Boys, Brian was physically and emotionally abused by his father from an early age.

But Wilson and his two brothers, Dennis and Carl, however, came to adopt their father’s love for music despite his abuse and Brian’s almost deaf in a ear. Together, they learned to harmonize in the living room and finally formed a band called pendletones, which their stamp then renamed the Beach Boys, although Brian did not know how to surf.

Thus began a prolific half decade of Wilson’s writer’s career. Between 1962 and 1967, when Brian was just over 20 years old, The Beach Boys launched 13 albums in total and enjoyed a massive success. But the lifestyle affected Wilson, who suffered a nervous collapse while touring in 1964, the same year he married his first wife, Marilyn Rovell, and continued to fight with the abuse of drugs and alcohol and the “schizoecifical disorder, which is … Manic depressive with auditory auditory”, as his second wife, led Better, described him later.

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It was in this way that one of the albums of the Beach Boys, “Smile”, did not see daylight for 37 years, which led to decades of whispers, wonders, theories and gossip. When asked in 2011 why “Smile” took so long to turn off, Wilson responded in his usual laconic way: “Because we were taking drugs and we really didn’t know how to finish it.”

In the 1970s, Wilson’s life, much less his career, was in ruins. His weight shot more than 300 pounds while fighting addiction and became an inmate in his house in California for several years. According to Biography.com, Wilson could sometimes be seen in clubs in the city, not in their healthy judgment and use only one bathtub and shoes.

Shortly after, Landy entered Wilson’s life, using the controversial regime of “24 -hour therapy” that took Wilson from drugs, but did it completely dependent on Landy, who came to dominate Wilson’s life both creatively and financially.

Finally, Wilson’s family had to sue Landy in the early 1990s to obtain a restriction order against the psychologist, who subsequently delivered his license. (The relationship of Wilson and Landy is portrayed in the acclaimed 2015 movie “Love & Mercy”, called for its alone song of 1988).

In the 34 years after his legal separation from Landy, Wilson’s general condition improved. He married Ledbetter in 1995. He was the father of seven children: Carnie and Wendy of Wilson Phillips fame of his first marriage, along with five children he adopted with Ledbetter.

Despite suffering a scenic fear of a lifetime, Wilson began to travel once again, his soothing harmonies filled the air and calmed both the pain of the audience and his.

“We all have the privilege of making music that helps and sanctions, to make music that makes people happier, stronger and more friendly,” Wilson said in his speech in the 1988 rock & roll hall.

He added: “Do not forget: music is the voice of God.”