Sly Stone, who created visionary psychedelic rock, soul and pop that helped integrate popular music and captured harsh social realities under the guise of big-tent cheer; and Brian Wilson, the macher of the Beach Boys,

Sometimes death, as life, brings strange symmetries. Two music revolutionaries, Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, both died within two days of each other. Each was 82.

LCD Soundsystem have paid tribute to Brian Wilson and Sly Stone at the opening night of their eight-date residency at London’s Brixton Academy. The New York group danced on to the stage to the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations,