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Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds - Charles L. Granata

Description: ISBN 1556525079 / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy

Newest Review: ... and roll excesses, then this isn’t the book for you. Whilst it certainly seems that Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys have ... more

... done some weird things and taken many, many drugs, that’s not the main feature of this book. In fact, everything seems to lead towards Brian’s mental illness and his recovery from that, with the drugs simply being a step down that path, not a catalyst to disaster. It is this that gives the story a lack of balance. There’s more words dedicated to Brian’s decline and fall, and the attempts to pick him back up again than there are to life with the Beach Boys. Even where the Beach Boys are mentioned, most of it is the...more

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Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds - Charles L. Granata: Not so Good Vibrations (1222 words)
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On Sky One’s “Brainiac” programme, they try to put the lie to Twisted Sister’s “Can’t Stop Rock and Roll” by a variety of methods. They’ve found that you can stop rock and roll with a shotgun, with a flamethrower, with a caravan, with a chainsaw, with lots of things. Many years before “Brainiac” had even been conceived, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys did something similar. He discovered that you can stop rock and roll with drug addiction and mental illness. After years of mental and physical abuse from his father, Brian Wilson found solace in music, finding that it allowed him to put his hurts to one side, if only for a little while. Getting ... Read the complete review