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Brian Wilson’s Life in Photos – The New York Times ImageBrian Wilson (top right) posing with the rest of the Beach Boys during a photo shoot in 1962. The band released its first album on Capitol Records that year.Credit…Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Brian Wilson (center, with bass guitar) as the Beach Boys rehearse at home … Read more

It was only a matter of time before a flurry of documentaries about the Titan submersible disappearance turned up on streaming platforms. The event captured the world’s attention in 2023 after the vessel, operated by the company OceanGate Expeditions, vanished in the North Atlantic, triggering a days-long search for survivors. Netflix’s “Titan: The OceanGate Disaster” … Read more

The gimmick of the Beach Boys was to package the 1960s California dream in pop singles that wed up-tempo guitar songs with multipart harmonies. The reason the group endured was Brian Wilson, the group’s resident genius, who died on Wednesday at 82. Wilson wrote, arranged and produced most of its catalog. (He also sang and … Read more

Paul Marantz, a prominent architectural lighting designer who illuminated disco floors and skylines, libraries and chic hotels, train stations and concert halls, museums and embassies, died on May 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87. The cause of death was complications of a stroke, his wife, Jane Marantz, said. Mr. Marantz, who was … Read more

Brian Wilson, who as the leader and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys became rock’s poet laureate of surf-and-sun innocence but also an embodiment of damaged genius through his struggles with mental illness and drugs, has died. He was 82. His family announced the death on Instagram but did not say where or when he … Read more