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Brian Wilson, singer-songwriter who created the Beach Boys, dies at 82

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The Beach Boys were formed in 1961 in Hawthorne , Calif. , near Los Angeles , by brothers Brian , Dennis and Carl Wilson , their cousin Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine .

They would make the Billboard Top 40 list 36 times in as many years , a tally unequaled by an American band.

The Beatles acknowledged the unity and complexity of “Pet Sounds ” helped inspire the similarly ambitious Sgt . Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Wilson 's relationship with the rest of the Beach Boys devolved into a squalid series of suits and countersuits.

The last official Beach Boys hit had been Kokomo in 1988 , with which Wilson had nothing to do.

In 1995 , he married a model and car saleswoman who became his manager and with whom he had five children.

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