“Farewell, maestro,” he said of the late legend. “Nothing but love and a lovely lasting debt from all of us over here on E Street”
Bruce Springsteen posted a heartfelt tribute to the Beach Boys‘ Brian Wilson, who died at the age of 82.
“Brian Wilson was the most musically inventive voice in all of pop, with an otherworldly ear for harmony,” Springsteen wrote on Instagram. “He was also the visionary leader of America’s greatest band, the Beach Boys. If there’d been no Beach Boys, there would have been no ‘Racing In The Street.’ Listen to ‘Summer’s Gone’ from the Beach Boys’ last album That’s Why God Made the Radio and weep. Farewell, Maestro. Nothing but love and a lovely lasting debt from all of us over here on E Street.”
Wilson and Springsteen (who covered the Beach Boys live on a couple of rare occasions, including in 1985) performed onstage together a decade ago, when the latter was a surprise guest at the former’s New Jersey concert in 2015, with the pair delivering a medley of Beach Boys hits:
