Brian Wilson, whose death at age 82 was announced today, left a profound impact on pop music, record production and American culture.

Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last Thursday night, just one day after it was announced that his inimitable bandmate Brian Wilson had died.

The news of Wilson's tragic death was shared on his social media accounts by his children—and comes just over one year after they filed for a conservatorship of their father, noting that he was suffe...