On June 11, leader of The Beach Boys legendary pop composer Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. Below, Grammy-winning producer and performer Don Was remembers Wilson, who he cites as "the Claude Monet of rock and roll.

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense the positive or negative energies of humans

"The notes he heard in his head and passed to us were simple and brilliant at the same time," the Beatle writes of the Beach Boy