Brian Wilson, cofounder of The Beach Boys and the creative force behind the group’s surf sound, orchestral arrangements and perfect harmonies, has died, his family announced on Wednesday.

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Worcester police ordered the curtain down on the Beach Boys’ performance and called off the sold-out show on Friday, Oct. 30, 1964, after an estimated 500 youngsters in an overflow sell-out crowd of 3,500 stormed the stage.

Brian Wilson, the driving force behind the Beach Boys whose sprawling compositional prowess influenced rock musicians from the Beatles to Radiohead and points between, has died, his family announced Wednesday.