Acting
Brian Wilson
1942-06-20 · Inglewood, California, USA
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 — June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. Wilson was considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.
Known for
Full House
Love & Mercy
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Duck Dodgers
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Wrecking Crew
Live Aid
Disorderlies
The Beach Boys
The Monkey's Uncle
The Return of Bruno
Live 8
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie credits · 81
Music is God Speaking – Brian Wilson
La leyenda de Canyut
Mount Vernon and Fairway
The Beach Boys
Bad Vibrations
Reinventing Elvis: The 68' Comeback
A Grammy Salute to The Beach Boys
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Streetlight Harmonies
My Music: A Classic Christmas
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson - Live at Baloise Session
The Beach Boys: A Long Promised Road - Volume 1 & 2 - 1962-1971
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
Brian Wilson and Friends - A Soundstage Special Event
Love & Mercy
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1969-1982
The Beach Boys - Live in Concert 50th Anniversary
The Beach Boys: Doin' It Again
…Sings Musicals
Endless Syncopation: The Rising Fall of The Beach Boys and The California Myth
Classic Albums: The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969
Going Home
Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
The Wrecking Crew
Beach Boys: Surfin' Success
Mellodrama
Cease to Exist
Musicares Presents a Tribute to Brian Wilson
The Swinging 60's - The Beach Boys
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Tales of the Rat Fink
Live 8
Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile
The Beach Boys - California Surfin
Brian Wilson Presents: Pet Sounds – Live in London
TV credits · 21
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
Dr. Feelgood
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Legends
Duck Dodgers
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hack
The Rhythm of Life
Behind the Music
Classic Albums
Later... with Jools Holland
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Full House
Goldene Kamera
Champs-Elysées
The Kennedy Center Honors
Saturday Night Live
The Dick Cavett Show
Omnibus
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
The Ed Sullivan Show
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