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Jan 3, 2022 · Rock history—whether it’s written by music critics, fans, journalists, or scholars—often paints Brian Wilson, the oft-proclaimed creative leader behind the Beach Boys, as a solitary auteur...
- Grant Wong
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys.
- Wilson is up front in addressing his mental health issues in the book. Much of the attention around Wilson in recent years has surrounded his mental health issues and he doesn't shy away from addressing them almost immediately in the book in the first chapter, 'Fear'.
- Phil Spector was a particular inspiration to Brian Wilson's musical approach. It's well-known that Wilson was fascinated with producer Phil Spector's pioneering production methods, taking every opportunity he could to hang out around the producer.
- Wilson failed music class in high school. Wilson actually failed music in high school because he didn't know how to write classical music. Despite this, Wilson talks favourably about classical composers and thinks of Bach when people ask him about what musicians he identifies with.
- Recording "Good Vibrations" was one of the highlights of his life. Wilson says there were more than 80 hours of tape dedicated to all the vocal parts and early takes of "Good Vibrations", making it one of the most expensive songs ever produced at the time.
May 27, 2024 · Wilson was a creative colossus; writing, arranging and producing the songs. But he needed help with lyrics. In late 1965 he was at a Hollywood party when he was introduced to Tony Asher, an advertising executive who had written jingles for companies such as Mattel and Max Factor.
- Neil Crossley
Jul 2, 2024 · It’ll be the tracks that captured something real in between the speakers, and Wilson always managed to get in touch with reality on vinyl. Any songwriter has to be put through their paces at some point, but Robin Pecknold marvelled at how Brian Wilson found the truth in the small details.
May 23, 2016 · Ahead of his three-night run at the London Palladium, tQ spoke to the great musical auteur about Pet Sounds, his lack of formal musical training and his simultaneous love of and fear for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Brian Wilson is one of the most influential songwriters in rock 'n' roll history, best known as the frontman for the Beach Boys.
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