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.

Two of music’s powerful visionaries died this week. The songs they meticulously constructed offered an escape their makers struggled to realize in their own lives.

LCD Soundsystem have paid tribute to Brian Wilson and Sly Stone at the opening night of their eight-date residency at London’s Brixton Academy. The New York group danced on to the stage to the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations,