Mike Love, one of the co-founders of the Beach Boys, paid tribute to his cousin and bandmate Brian Wilson, who died on Wednesday at age 82.

‘We are at a loss for words right now’, his family said as they announced the death of the hugely influential musical star

From God Only Knows to Good Vibrations – and beyond. The greatest songs by the late genius of Californian surf-pop

The Beach Boys’ melodic genius has passed at 82, but the good vibrations of his music may never fade away

The musical world has lost a giant

Leader of the Beach Boys who found fame with hymns to California beach culture and developed into a musician of outstanding range and imagination

The troubled musician was a genius whose work was the envy of generations of fellow artists. Fiona Sturges pays tribute, and recalls her encounter with Wilson where he told her about his fear of failure, his abusive father, and the voices in his head

He was the Beach Boys’ resident genius, seeping melancholy into even peppy teenybopper hits. Beyond all the myths about his life, that brilliance is still intoxicating

His early hits — “Surfer Girl,” “I Get Around,” “All Summer Long,” “Help Me, Rhonda” and “California Girls” — evoked a fantasy world of fast cars, beautiful youth, eternal surf and sunshine on an immaculate beach.

Musician, who suffered from mental health problems, wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time

The beloved musician had been living with a neurocognative disorder akin to dementia

Singer Ed Sheeran has revealed he has 24-hour security for himself and his family after an attempted break-in at his home. The 34-year-old spoke about life in the limelight and his family when he appeared on the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast. The Shape of You singer said: “I do think that there is a different kind of normal that is our business. I have like 24-hour security on my house. I have security with my kids. “I have security with me. I have security with my wife, just because there have been a couple of weird things over the years that have happened.”

Beatle wrote in 1962 letter to Cynthia Powell that he wished he was on his way to her flat with ‘chocies and a throbber’