The Beatles member posted a thought tribute on Instagram to the Beach Boys founder who died on Wednesday, June 11. He shared an image of a young Wilson, along with more recent pictures of the rock legends together.

There's been an outpouring of grief since news arrived that Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong paid tribute to the Beach Boys legend, dropping a cover of "I Get Around.

Brian Wilson and his family were open about his health, from his needing a conservatorship for his dementia to his battle with substance use.

An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.

"Farewell, maestro," he said of the late legend. "Nothing but love and a lovely lasting debt from all of us over here on E Street"

The Beach Boys' founding member never seemed to encounter a genre, instrument or movement he didn’t want to incorporate into his soundscape. That’s why it’s equally surprising and totally believable that at the very start of the '90s he recorded a rap song,

The family of Brian Wilson, the co-founder of the Beach Boys, announced on June 11 that he passed away at the age of 82. Wilson shaped the Beach Boys’ timeless sound as the band’s songwriter and co-lead vocalist,