Brian Wilson, visionary and fragile leader Beach Boys, whose genius for melody, arrangement and self -unification inspired “good vibrations”, “California girls” and other summer anthem and made it one of the most influential artists in the world, died in 82.
Wilson’s family published reports of his death on his website and social media accounts on Wednesday. Further details were not available immediately. Since May 2024, Wilson has been under the conservatory to supervise his personal and medical affairs, with Wilson’s longtime representatives, publicist Jean Sievers and manager Leeann Hard.
The oldest and last survival of three musical brothers – Brian played Bass, Carl Lead on guitar and Dennis Drums – he and his colleagues Beach Boys raised at the age of 60 from the local California group after the National Hitmakers to the international ambassador Surf and the Sun. Wilson himself was celebrated for his gifts and coated for his demons. He was one of Rock’s big rock, a suffered man who, in his peak years, set out on an increasingly prudent journey to perfection of decency, the only real sound.
Beach Boys is one of the most popular groups of rock era, with more than 30 singles in TOP 40 and worldwide sales of more than 100 million. The album “Pet Sounds” from 1966 was voted 2 in the Rolling Stone list in 2003, the best 500 albums, as Wilson had previously made, for the Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Beach Boys, who also represented Wilson Cousin Mika Love and Childhood Friend Al Jardine, were voted in 1988 to the Hall of Fame of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Wilson fought with love for credits, but the peers otherwise adored him for envy, from Elton John and Bruce Springsteen to Smokey Robinson and Carole King. WHO is a drummer, Keith Moon, fantasy to connect to Beach Boys. Paul McCartney quoted “pets for pets” as a direct inspiration for the Beatles and the ballad “God knows only” as among his favorite songs, which often brings him to tears.
Wilson moved and fascinated fans and musicians long after he stopped having hits. In his later years, Wilson and the devoted accompaniment of younger musicians showed “Pet Sounds” and his renewed opus “Smile” before worshiping the crowds in the concert halls. Meanwhile, Go-Go, Lindsey Buckingham, Animal Collective and Janelle Monae were among a wide range of artists who imitated him, whether as a master of craft popular music or as a pioneer that detonates her.
The music of Beach Boys’ was like an ongoing party with Wilson as a host and a wallflower. He was a tall, shy man, partly deaf (allegedly because of the beating of his father Murry Wilson), with a sweet crooked smile, and rarely touched the surf board if he wasn’t a photographer. But from the lifestyle he observed, and such musical influences as Chuck Berry and four freshmen, he conjured up the golden sound scenes – sweet melodies, shining harmony, vignets of beaches, cars and girls – who resonated over time and climate.
Decades after the first release, Beach Boys can still conjure up the immediate summer-budding guitar riff, which opens “surfin” USA “; melting vocals “don’t worry about a child”; Singing “entertainment, entertainment, entertainment” or “good, good, good, good vibrations”; Bike behind the scenes “bike”, walk around, walk around. “Beach Boys lasted from the turntable and transistor radios to boom boxes and iPhones or any devices that could lie on the beach towel or be placed upright in the sand.
The innocent challenge of the band has survived the increasingly concerned story of the band, whether Brian’s many personal experiments, disputes and court disputes between band members or alcoholism Dennis Wilson, who drowned in 1983. Brian Wilson’s ambitions increased Beach Boys for weighing their early hits and world transcendent, eccentric and destructive. They seemed to experience every imagination and many nightmares from the California myth that they helped create.
From the suburbs to the national scene
Brian Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, two days after McCartney. His musical gifts were soon obvious and played as a boy on the piano and taught his brothers to sing harmony. Beach Boys began as a neighbor’s act, trying in Brian’s bedroom and in the garage of their house in the suburban Hawthorne, California. Surf Music, mostly helpful in his early years, caught locally: Dennis Wilson, the only real surfer of the group, suggested to choose him. Brian and Love hastily wrote their first single “Surfin”, a minor intervention released in 1961.
They wanted to be called Pendletons, in honor of the popular flannel shirts, which they wore in the first publicity photographs. But when they first saw the yews for “Surfrin”, they found that the recording company called them “Beach Boys”. Their father, a musician of some frustration who hired himself as a manager and a holy terror, handled another decision. In the middle of the declaration, Murry Wilson was moved and Brian, who almost from the start of the band was recording, was in charge of, so Beach Boys made a rare group of time to work without an external producer.
Their breakthrough came in early 1963 with “Surfin” USA, so closely modeled on Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” that Berry has successfully sued to earn a song for writing. It was their first 10 best hits and show off the nation: “If all of the ocean / through the US / then they were all surfrin, ‘ / like cal-for-nnye-any.” Between 1963 and 66 they were rarely from the graphs, hit No. 1 with “I Going Around” and “Help me, Rhonda” and disappeared with “California girls” and “fun, fun, fun”. For television performances, they wore tongue shirts and grinned as they imitated their latest hit, with a hot rod or a surf nearby.
Their music repeated private differences. Wilson often contrasted with his own bright falset with a nasal nasal, dead tenor. Extroved love was before fast songs outside, but when it was slow, Brian took over. The “warmth of the sun” was the song of despair and consolation Wilson claimed – for some skepticism – he wrote in the morning after President John F. Kennedy was murdered. “Don’t worry, gold,” the ballad equally intoxicating and heartbreaking was a confession of doubt and addiction to the leader, early sign of Brian’s paralyzing anxiety.
Stress and exhaustion led to a disintegration in 1964 and his retirement from the tour, his place soon occupied by Bruce Johnston, who remained in the group for decades. Wilson was the admirer of the “Wall of Sound” production Phil Spector and imitated him on the songs Beach Boys, added sled to “dancing, dancing, dancing” or organized a mini-tematical park of guitars, corners, drums and organs as pre-play to “California girls”.
In the mid -1960s, Beach Boys was held as an answer to the Beatles, a friendly game that each group received, transported pop music to the level of “art” and left Wilson’s broken man.
The Beach Boys vs. The Beatles
The Beatles opened the “Rubber Soul”, released at the end of 1965 and their first studio album made without distraction of movies or tour. He was immediately awarded as the main progress, the lyrics much more personal and the music much more sophisticated and more sophisticated than such previous hits as “loves you” and “a difficult day”. Wilson would remember how he first gets high and listened to the record, and promises not only to keep up with the British band, but it is a peak.
Wilson worked for months on what happened “sounds for pets” and months on the single “good vibration”. He hired external lyricist Tony Asher and used various studios with dozens of musicians and instruments, from violin to bongos to harpsichord. The air seemed to have cooled in some footsteps and the mood was reflected, autumn. “I know there is an answer to” you still believe in me “, many songs were ballads, respect, brushes of melodies, the culmination of sound miracles of” good vibrations “, psychedelic haircuts that sometimes sounded as if they were recorded in space.
The results were significant, yet disappointment. “Good vibrations” was the first million seller of the group and “sounds for pets”, including the hits “Sloop John B” and “It wouldn’t be nice”, including McCartney, John Lennon and Eric Clapton. Widely considered a new type of rock LP, it was more suitable for headphones than for the radio, a “conceptual” album in which individual songs created a unified experience, so complicated in the studio that “PET sounds” cannot be replicated with time technology. Wilson was compared not only to the Beatles, but to Mozart and George Gershwin, whose “rhapsody in Blue” inspired him since childhood.
But the album did not speak as high as the previous Beach Boys, and it was treated indifferently by the American recording company Capitol. Meanwhile, the Beatles absorbed Beach Boys lessons and taught some in return. “Revolver” and “Sgt. Pepper”, The Beatles’ Next Two Albums, drew on the voice tapestries of Beach Boys and melodic bass lines, and even animals from the title songs “sounds for pets”. Epic Beatles’ Epic “Day in the Life” reaffirmed the British band as Kings of the Pop World and “Sgt. Pepper” as an album to beat.
All eyes turned to Wilson, and his intended masterpiece – “teenage symphonies to God” called “smile”. It was a capricious cycle of songs about nature and American folklore written with lyricist van Dyke Parks. Production bounded by the method of acting; For the song about the fire, Wilson had a firefighting helmet in the studio. The other beach boys were confused and tense to work with it. Shaken Wilson delayed “smile”, then canceled it.
The remains, including the songs “Heroes and Villains” and “Wind Chimes”, were re -recorded and released in September 1967 on “Smiley Smile”, which Carl Wilson rejected as “Bunt instead of Great Slam”. The undressed “Wild Honey”, which was released three months later, became a critical favorite, but did not renew the reputation of the band. Beach Boys soon descended to Oldies Act, out of contact with radical 60. Fly, and Wilson withdrew into separation.
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