Brian Wilson, an eclectic genius whose sunny Beach Boys songs helped define a revved-up era of American popular music, has died at age 82.

“Everything Brian created is worth hearing and it all has a kind of historical value in terms of understanding his life,” said David Leaf, the Beach Boys historian who published “Smile: The Rise, Fall...

I always felt bad about that interview moment, not because Wilson even remembered it (we actually had a couple other interviews over the years which were fine) but because it seemed that this trouble...