Singer, songwriter, studio lover, visionary. And I didn’t like the basement. “God Only Knows” What follows.
Brian Wilson died This Wednesday. The singer and composer, visionary leader of Beach Boys, It is considered a genius.
A genius from the song, of the arrangements, expression emotional. Gave rise to summer hymns as “good vibrations” and .
Born on June 20, 1942, In California, Brian Wilson found in music a refuge and a source of joy. Around the Hammond organ of the living room, he taught his brothers the harmonies of jazz and gospel.
In 1961, in Hawthorne, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, he formed a group with his two Brothers, Dennis e Carl -Brian played bass, Carl Guitar Solo and Dennis Battery -, Cousin Mike Love and a neighbor, Al Jardine.
The oldest and last survivor of the three musicians and the remaining beach boys went from a local band from California to International surf and summer icons.
Brian Wilson was celebrated by his talent and compared by their Demons; It was one of the great romantics of rock and an tormented man who, in his height years, relevantly pursued sound perfection, o True sound.
Beach Boys are among the most popular groups of the rock age, with over 30 ‘singles’ on the top 40 and over 100 million albums sold worldwide.
The album “Pet Sounds”, 1966, the second best of all time In a Rolling Stone list in 2003, losing only to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, and the band was included in the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ in 1988.
In the same year (1966) a pop song appeared outside the box :. An unusual creation, which was in the history of music. Professional musicians did not hide their Vénia. Paul McCartney It was one of them: it was one of his favorite songs, saying that he often made him cry. And Peta Townshend, by The Who, did not hesitate: “It’s a Perfect art work” – Even today there are those who put God Only Knows on the list of.
Who listens to beach boys, can hear soon, also from 1966. Some analysts consider it to best pop music ever. A great world success, a work of art (and the most expensive single ever), a revolutionary studio work.
Brian was also that: a revolutionary and a lover of studio. It is reported that the publisher even put the beach boys in a studio built in a basement. The composer arrived, looked and refused to record there; I couldn’t afford it.
He even abdicated live appearances on stage to focus on the studio. I only went to television stakes – because what I wanted was work in backstage.
Brian Wilson had disagreement With Mike Love about composition credits, but was widely admired by colleagues like Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Smokey Robinson and Carole King.
Keith Moon, The Who drummer, said he dreamed of joining the Beach Boys. Paul McCartney quoted “Pet Sounds” as a direct inspiration for The Beatles.
In 1967, with the mental health deteriorated by an uncontrolled consumption of drugs, Brian Wilson collapsed in the middle of the flight, becoming unable to finish “Smile”.
Increasingly disturbed, believed it was being spied For a producer on the east coast and the Beatles, which scared his companions. Was then diagnosed with schizophrenia and abdicated.
With only 25 years, his career was practically finished And Brian Wilson spent most of his time lying down, doubled in volume, and survived under the control of a dishonest therapist.
Beach Boys lived from their reputation for Hawaiian shirt singers. Dennis, strongly drunk, drowned in 1983, and Carl died of cancer em 1998.
This period of combating the deepest ghost De Wilson would be portrayed in Bill Pohlad’s “Love and Mercy – The Force of a Genius” with John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti and Paul Dano, among others, premiered in 2015.
It was only at the time of the reform, in 2002 – After a long period marked by hospitalizations, treatments and relapses – that Brian Wilson’s life gave a twist And the musician managed to complete his masterpiece, “Smile”.
Married again and father of five adoptive children (seven in total), Brian Wilson devoted herself to “Smile”, first in concert, where she reappeared as an arranged spectrum, then on album, finally giving a coherent form to this album.
Even after ceasing, Brian Wilson continued to thrill fans and musicians, namely in his last years, where along with a dedicated group of younger musicians “Pet Sounds” and his restored work “Smile” before devout audiences.
That’s what happened in Portugal, In June 2016, when he signaled the 50th anniversary of “Pet Sounds” edition at Primavera Sound in Porto.
Artists such as The Go-GO’s, Lindsey Buckingham, Animal Collective and Janelle Monáe were influenced by Brian Wilson, as much as POP Masterhow pioneer in its deconstruction.
Brian Wilson was a tall, reserved man, partially deaf (allegedly due to the aggressions of his father, Murry Wilson), with a friendly and misleading smile, which rarely played on a surf board “Except when there was a photographer nearby.”
But from the lifestyle I watched and musical influences like Chuck Berry and the Four Freshmen, composed a Golden Sound Landscape – sweet melodies, sparkling harmonies, beaches, cars and girls – which echoed through time and climates.
Decades after its first edition, a Beach Boys song continues to instantly evoke the summer – the ‘riff’ of guitar that opens; the vocals of; the choruses of or “Good, Good, Good, Good Vibrations”; The “Round, Round, Get Around, I Get Around”
Beach Boys’ songs resisted the passage of time and the band’s appeal survived the group’s troubled periods, with Brian Wilson’s ambition to take the Beach Boys beyond the simple pleasures of the first successes, towards a transcendent, eccentric and destructive world.
Hit by insanity At the end of his life, Brian Wilson was placed under tutelage in May 2024.
Died 82 years.
