Complex sentence: Wilson lived quietly in suburban Hillsdale, New Jersey, throughout the 1960s and 1970s where he performed as a soloist and with pick-up groups until the final years of his life.
Split into simpler sentences: Wilson lived quietly in suburban Hillsdale, New Jersey in the 1960s and 1970s. He performed as a soloist and with pick-up groups until the final years of his life.