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Brian Wilson: the troubled genius who powered the Beach Boys
Brian Wilson sang of a sun-drenched, carefree world that stood in striking contrast to his tormented inner life. In songs like "Fun, Fun, Fun," "California Girls," "Surfin' U.S.A.," and "I Get Around," the Beach Boys leader wrote of a Southern California idyll where eternal surf beckoned and there were "two girls for every boy." Their more than 30 Top 40 hits made the Beach Boys America's top band of the mid-1960s. But in reality, Wilson was a t…
He had never liked the label of genius that an ecstatic critic, from 1966 onwards, had acclaimed him: later he would make her partly responsible for his psychic collapse, as if she had placed a burden too heavy on already overburdened shoulders. Genius, Brian Wilson was certainly there, but he had remained first and foremost a fearful child who was seeking in musical perfection a kind of grail of reconciliation, a prayer that he wanted worthy of…
Poet and Brian Wilson Collaborator Stephen Kalinich To Release Second Album ‘I Love My Life’
Poet Stephen Kalinich will release ‘I Love My Life’ on July 11. Stephen’s first album ‘A World of Peace Must Come’ was recorded with Brian Wilson in 1969 buy stayed unreleased until 2008. His songs have been recorded by Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Paul McCartney, Steve Cropper, PF Sloan, and Diana Ross. ‘I Love My Life’ is credited to Stephen Kalinich and Friends. The album was produced by Stephen’s friends Milo Binder, and Willie Aron (Thee Ho…
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