NEED TO KNOW Beach Boy Brian Wilson's final years included the death of his wife Melinda and a conservatorship Wilson, a father of seven, was dealing with a "major neurocognitive disorder (such as ...

Brian Wilson, one of the founding members of the Beach Boys, passed away at the age of 82 after a battle with dementia and being placed on a second conservatorship, read his family's statement… ...

On July 26, 2022, Brian Wilson gave it his all and performed his final show at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan.

Wilson, who’s worked with Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Roger Waters and more, did say that two tracks were completed and shared just a little bit of them both on Instagram.

But Brian Wilson's adult ear was still tuned to more ambitious places, so Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) comes off like teenage radio fantasies swathed in grown-up sounds.