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Carl Dean Wilson, Beach Boys, Grave and Tombstone, Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, California, photo

The tombstone and grave site of Carl Dean Wilson, known as the lead guitarist and also at times as the lead singer of The Beach Boys. Carl Wilson was born on December 21, 1946 in Hawthorne, California as the younger brother of fellow Beach Boys members, Brian and Dean Wilson and also a cousin of Mike Love, another member. When the Beach Boys were organized in 1961, Carl Wilson was the youngest member at age fifteen.

Carl Wilson was the lead singer on two of the biggest Beach Boys hits of 1966 when he was twenty years old: Good Vibrations and God Only Knows. Soon afterward, his brother, Brian Wilson, left touring with the group with Carl then taking on the role of leading the group.

A smoker since his early teens, Carl Wilson died of lung cancer on February 6, 1998 in Los Angeles, California. Wilson was 51 years old. His remains are buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.