# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-wilson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:55:52.880Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-wilson"
name: "Brian Wilson"
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description: "He turned the studio into an instrument and the pop song into architecture — Brian Wilson built symphonies out of surf music, then watched his mind fracture under the weight of what he heard."
tagline: "American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer"
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deathDate: "2025-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Brian Douglas Wilson was born June 20, 1942, and by 1961 had co-founded the Beach Boys, writing, arranging, producing, and performing in a way no pop musician had before Capitol signed them in 1962. He stacked two dozen Top 40 hits by the mid-1960s — "I Get Around," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Good Vibrations" — then suffered a nervous breakdown in late 1964 and stopped touring to focus on the studio. In 1966 he completed Pet Sounds and began Smile, an unfinished album that marked the start of a long decline: his voice, his health, his output all gave way to reclusion and substance abuse. A near-solo comeback arrived with The Beach Boys Love You in 1977, followed by a fraught partnership with psychologist Eugene Landy through the 1980s that yielded the solo album Brian Wilson in 1988. He broke from Landy in 1991, toured regularly from 1999 to 2022, and finally released a finished Smile in 2004. He died June 11, 2025, of respiratory arrest.