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I am brian wilson book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, there’s a case to be made for the Beach Boys having created art pop. ![]() On the other hand, they were capable of realising a unique take on art pop (“In My Room”, “God Only Knows” etc) that was, and still is, simply unassailable. They looked like squares and they never had the hip cachet of the band they considered their real competition, the Beatles. They were all family, managed by their tyrannical dad Murry, apart from Mike Love, Brian’s close boyhood friend and cousin. In the left corner, the drug-fucked genius, the Bach of modern pop: BRIAN WILSON! In the right corner, the craven villain that everyone loves to hate, the man who stole the Beach Boys: Brian’s cousin, MIKE LOVE!įirst, let’s hear it for the Beach Boys. Were they the first proper boy band? When they first broke big, they were all teens, and Brian Wilson’s brother Carl (the one with the really great voice) was a mere 15 years old. Gary Steel surveys two new biographies by two old foes from the Beach Boys – Brian Wilson (genius) and Mike Love (asshole), and finds the asshole’s book is better. ![]()
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