The statement on Instagram did not give a cause. Wilson was placed under a legal conservatorship last year due to a “major neurocognitive disorder.”
The pop visionary crafted hits whose success rivaled The Beatles throughout the 1960s, a seemingly inexhaustible string of feel-good tracks including Surfin’ USA, I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun and Surfer Gir that made the Beach Boys into America’s biggest selling band.
His lush productions were revered among his peers, with even Bob Dylan once telling Newsweek: “That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian!”
He would emerge 35 years later to complete the Beach Boys’ unfinished album, “Smile” – widely regarded as his masterpiece.
John Lennon said he considered Pet Sounds (1966) to be one of the best albums of all time, while Paul McCartney said Wilson was a “genius” – who reduced him to tears with one song from the album, God Only Knows which Wilson wrote in 45 minutes. Its melancholic depths hinted at Wilson’s own painful secret.
Music was his protection, and The Beach Boys was a family affair: he formed the band with his two brothers Dennis and Carl, his cousin Mike Love and neighbor Al Jardine.
Their first song Surfin, in 1961, was a loose prototype for the unique sound that would become their signature, a fusion of the rock styles of Chuck Berry and Little Richard with the preppy vocal harmonies of The Four Freshmen.
Lost youth
He was deaf in his right ear and his mouth sagged when he sang – the result of the many beatings he received from his father.
“He made us mow the lawn and when we were done, he’d say, ‘Mow it again.’”
But Wilson’s writing became darker as he began to eulogise lost youth. He channeled the group towards the more psychedelic rock central to the hippie culture taking hold in California.
The single topped the charts and sold one million copies in the United States, but Wilson was at the brink.
He abandoned Smile, planted his grand piano in a sandbox, and took vast quantities of LSD and acid.
The group eventually parted ways.
The troubled artist had long stints of rehab and relapses as well as legal issues including a lengthy, eyebrow-raising relationship with a controlling psychotherapist who was eventually blocked by a court order from contact with Wilson.
His brother Dennis drowned in 1983, while Carl died of cancer in 1998.
The musician’s many accolades included a Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, when that committee dubbed him “rock and roll’s gentlest revolutionary.”
“There is real humanity in his body of work,“ they said, “vulnerable and sincere, authentic and unmistakably American.”
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