![]() ![]() Most fascinating though, in a lot of ways, is his description of the voices in his head and what they tell him, through which he and Greenman paint a startling picture of mental illness that possibly rings more true than any I’ve read previously and explains, from the start, the tone and structure of what follows. ![]() ![]() Given the somewhat muddled life Wilson led from the mid-1960s to the late-1980s there have been many stories, half truths and versions of events told by other parties (including an earlier autobiography from the early 1990s) but I Am Brian Wilson, released in 2016, is supposedly a more direct and accurate account (though this has been questioned subsequently). While the summery 1960s hits of The Beach Boys were something of a staple of my younger years living by the beach (though almost as far from California as its possible to be) and the big songs from the likes of Pet Sounds, as well as Good Vibrations, are timeless, the life of the band’s chief songwriter and apparent initial driving force, Brian Wilson, isn’t one I knew a huge amount about.Ī few years ago though I caught the movie Love & Mercy in the cinema and very much enjoyed it and it piqued my interest somewhat in the life behind the scenes of a man who, if I’m honest, often appeared somewhat confused and doddery in his more recent TV appearances. ![]()
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