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Dennis Carl Wilson (December 4, 1944 – December 28, 1983) was an American musician who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their drummer and as the middle brother of bandmates Brian and Carl Wilson.
Apr 10, 2023 · Tragically, Dennis Wilson was also the first of the original Beach Boys to pass away, as he died on December 28, 1983, just weeks after turning 39 years old. While most fans are aware that he died after drowning at Marina Del Rey, California, the last few days of his life — and especially the hours right before his death — still deserve a ...
May 24, 2024 · The Beach Boy, who checked into two separate detox and hospital facilities and promptly left both in the days leading up to his death, had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald before he...
Nov 8, 2023 · Wilson had co-founded the Beach Boys, the California surfer-rock group that topped the charts in the ’60s and ’70s. But his abuse of alcohol and drugs like cocaine and heroin led to his band members, including his brothers Brian and Carl, to give him an ultimatum: clean up his act or get kicked out of the group.
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Jun 7, 1984 · The thirty-nine-year-old Beach Boy had been beaten up by a male friend of his estranged wife — nineteen-year-old Shawn Love Wilson — at the Santa Monica Bay Inn.
Dec 4, 2023 · Celebrating some lesser-known corners of The Beach Boys’ work, here are Dennis Wilson’s ten best Beach Boys songs. Listen to the best of The Beach Boys on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down...
Aug 16, 2023 · Nude dinner parties, acid orgies and death threats: The life of The Beach Boys' co-founder Dennis Wilson was turned upside down after Charles Manson's murderous cult overtook his life, his home and his finances
Dec 28, 2023 · Dennis became the enigmatic, philosophical Beach Boy who released a solo single with Daryl Dragon as Drumbo (geddit?), starred in the cult buddy road movie Two-Lane Blacktop with hip Apple singer James Taylor and then broke out of the fold.
Aug 19, 2017 · It was late afternoon on a winter's day in 1983 when Dennis Wilson, drummer in the Beach Boys pop band, dived into the water in Marina del Rey harbour, searching for gear that had fallen off his boat. A short time later, his lifeless body was pulled from the water. How he drowned, with so many people nearby, has never been quite clear.
Jun 26, 2021 · Here’s to the hauntingly beautiful good vibrations that live on through Dennis Wilson’s long-delayed and late-appreciated solo opus “Pacific Ocean Blue,” and to those timeless surfin’ safari memories of the one true Beach Boy.