Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within two days of each other. Each was 82.

Musician, singer, songwriter, producer and more, he collaborated with Madonna and a raft of other artists and helped resuscitate the career of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson. By Alex Williams Mr ...

The death of Brian Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, caused his friend John Stamos to post a touching remembrance to Instagram Wednesday. “Brian Wilson didn’t just soundtrack my life… he filled it with color,

“When I was around 10 or 12 years old,” Brian Wilson said, “my mom and I were walking to the market one day and a dog started barking at us. When I asked my mom, ‘Why is that dog barking at us?’ she said, ‘Son, some dogs pick up vibrations from some people, and when they pick up bad vibrations, they bark.’ And I said, ‘What about good vibrations?’”

Brian Wilson has been cited as a major influence on several different genres, and sometimes, considered one of the first artist to make them.