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Brian Wilson’s Genius for Melody and Harmony Took Pop Music to New Heights of Creativity

Brian Wilson’s Genius for Melody and Harmony Took Pop Music to New Heights of Creativity
Musician Brian Wilson performs "Pet Sounds" at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles on May 26, 2017. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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On June 11, the news broke that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys passed away, nine days short of his 83rd birthday. The word “icon” is often overused, but for the baby boomer generation, Wilson and his band are firmly established as cultural icons of an iconic, colorful decade—the 1960s.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.