Brian Wilson’s good vibrations

The whole world sees the California Dream to the soundtrack of Beach Boys songs.

“If everybody had an ocean / Across the U.S.A. / Then everybody’d be surfin’ / Like Californ-i-a.” That’s from “Surfin’ USA.”

The genius behind it and other Beach Boys songs, Brian Wilson, died on June 11 at age 82.

Wilson later explained how he started the band in Hawthorne in 1961 with his brothers Carl and Dennis and friends Mike Love and Al Jardine. Before leaving on a trip to Mexico, the Wilsons’ parents left the boys $200.