Carl Wilson
Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as their lead guitarist, as the youngest brother of band-mates Brian and Dennis Wilson, and as the group's leader in the early 1970s.
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| Birth name | Carl Dean Wilson |
| Born | December 21, 1946 Hawthorne, California, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 1998 (aged 51) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1961–1997 |
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| Website | carlwilsonfoundation |
He died, aged 51, of lung cancer in 1998.[1]
Carl Wilson Media
Trade ad for The Beach Boys's single "California Girls" / "Let Him Run Wild".To better adapt it to his respective Wikipedia article, the ad was cropped and cleaned in a graphics editing program. The original can be viewed at the source below.
Wilson (left) with Bruce Johnston and Roy Orbison in 1979
Carl Wilson at the Ronald Reagan Special Olympics Event in June 12, 1983.
Wilson's headstone over his grave
A Rickenbacker 360/12 identical to the 12-string guitar used by Carl in the early to mid-1960s
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References
- ↑ Pareles, Jon (February 9, 1998). "Carl Wilson, A Beach Boys Founder, 51". The New York Times.
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