“Brian had that mysterious sense of musical genius that made his songs so achingly special,” McCartney wrote on Instagram on Thursday.

Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame last Thursday night, just one day after it was announced that his inimitable bandmate Brian Wilson had died.

The news of Wilson's tragic death was shared on his social media accounts by his children—and comes just over one year after they filed for a conservatorship of their father, noting that he was suffe...