The Beach Boys' co-founder talks to The Times about his longtime former bandmate who helped shape the culture of SoCal music.

Mike Love is looking back fondly on Brian Wilson, his cousin and Beach Boys collaborator who died Wednesday at 82.

Every day I pull into my garage, Dad says hello. He’s been gone since 1999, but his yellow hard hat glows like the sun he once was in my life. A sun that both warmed me and burned me. All these years ...