section_path: 2011–2025: Continued touring and final years/Pet Sounds world tours, At My Piano, and UMPG sale
section_name: Pet Sounds world tours, At My Piano, and UMPG sale
paragraph_text: Pet Sounds world tours, At My Piano, and UMPG sale
  
  In March 2016, Wilson and Al Jardine began the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour, billed as his final performances of the album. In October, his second memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, written by journalist Ben Greenman after several months of interviews, was published. Asked about negative remarks in Wilson's book, Love refuted that his printed statements were spoken and argued that Wilson was "not in charge of his life, like I am mine", adding that he preferred to avoid pressuring Wilson "because I know he has a lot of issues". In the late 2010s, Wilson remarked to a journalist that he had not "had a friend to talk to in three years". In a 2016 Rolling Stone interview, he responded to a retirement question by stating he would rather continue touring than sit idle.
  
  In 2019, Wilson embarked on a co-headlining tour with the Zombies, performing selections from Friends and Surf's Up. Around this time, he had had two back surgeries that left him reliant on a walker. Later in the year, he postponed some concert dates due to worsening mental health. The next month, his social media declared that he had recovered and would resume touring. Pausing his tours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he resumed touring in August 2021. In November, two releases followed: At My Piano, featuring new instrumental piano recordings of his songs, and the soundtrack to Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, which includes both new and previously unreleased recordings.
  
  At the end of 2021, Wilson sold his publishing rights to Universal Music Publishing Group for $50 million. Wilson was paid almost $32 million for his songwriter share plus $19 million for his reversion rights (his ability to reclaim his song rights within a time period after signing them away under the Copyright Act of 1976). In 2022, his ex-wife Marilyn, who had been awarded half of his songwriting royalties, sued Wilson for $6.7 million.
  
  On July 26, 2022, Wilson played his last concert, as part of a joint tour with Chicago at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, where he was reported to have "sat rigid and expressionless" throughout the performance. Days later, he cancelled his remaining tour dates for that year, with his management citing "unforeseen health reasons". During a January 2023 appearance on a Beach Boys fan podcast, Wilson's daughter Carnie reported that her father was "probably not going to tour anymore, which is heartbreaking".
  
  In January 2024, Melinda Ledbetter died at their home. The following month, it was announced that Wilson had dementia and entered into another conservatorship, which began in May 2024. He had completed two tracks as part of a forthcoming solo album produced by Joe Thomas and Jonathan Wilson (no relation) before the project was abandoned following Thomas' death that April.
  
  In March 2016, Wilson and Al Jardine began the Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour, billed as his final performances of the album. In October, his second memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, written by journalist Ben Greenman after several months of interviews, was published. Asked about negative remarks in Wilson's book, Love refuted that his printed statements were spoken and argued that Wilson was "not in charge of his life, like I am mine", adding that he preferred to avoid pressuring Wilson "because I know he has a lot of issues". In the late 2010s, Wilson remarked to a journalist that he had not "had a friend to talk to in three years". In a 2016 Rolling Stone interview, he responded to a retirement question by stating he would rather continue touring than sit idle.
  
  In 2019, Wilson embarked on a co-headlining tour with the Zombies, performing selections from Friends and Surf's Up. Around this time, he had had two back surgeries that left him reliant on a walker. Later in the year, he postponed some concert dates due to worsening mental health. The next month, his social media declared that he had recovered and would resume touring. Pausing his tours due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he resumed touring in August 2021. In November, two releases followed: At My Piano, featuring new instrumental piano recordings of his songs, and the soundtrack to Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road, which includes both new and previously unreleased recordings.
  
  At the end of 2021, Wilson sold his publishing rights to Universal Music Publishing Group for $50 million. Wilson was paid almost $32 million for his songwriter share plus $19 million for his reversion rights (his ability to reclaim his song rights within a time period after signing them away under the Copyright Act of 1976). In 2022, his ex-wife Marilyn, who had been awarded half of his songwriting royalties, sued Wilson for $6.7 million.
  
  On July 26, 2022, Wilson played his last concert, as part of a joint tour with Chicago at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan, where he was reported to have "sat rigid and expressionless" throughout the performance. Days later, he cancelled his remaining tour dates for that year, with his management citing "unforeseen health reasons". During a January 2023 appearance on a Beach Boys fan podcast, Wilson's daughter Carnie reported that her father was "probably not going to tour anymore, which is heartbreaking".
  
  In January 2024, Melinda Ledbetter died at their home. The following month, it was announced that Wilson had dementia and entered into another conservatorship, which began in May 2024. He had completed two tracks as part of a forthcoming solo album produced by Joe Thomas and Jonathan Wilson (no relation) before the project was abandoned following Thomas' death that April.