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It was Brian Wilson who started it all. Back in 2002, the musical genius behind the Beach Boys toured Britain with a fabulous multi-tasking band in a series of shows in which the centrepiece was a performance of the classic Beach Boys album Pet Sounds, played in its entirety. Wilson looked like a rabbit trapped in the headlights, but still: it was musical bliss.
Oasis mastermind Noel Gallagher has partnered with download giant iTunes to create a play list of ten songs he finds particularly inspiring. His choices cover everything from Dylan to Marmalade. At least he didn't pull a Brian Wilson. When Rolling Stone asked the Beach Boys front man for his favorite songs of all-time, he included five Beach Boys' songs in his Top 10.
This past weekend, I drove my nineteen year old son, Mario, and his friend from Durham, NC to Glenside, PA. to see Brian Wilson in concert at the Keswick Theater. My son has had a passion for the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson for years, the kind of passion I felt at his age for [...]
A strong ray of West Coast warmth brightened Glenside's Keswick Theatre on Saturday when Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson played his new album, That Lucky Old Sun - a deeply personal valentine to all things California - and offered a jukeboxlike collection of greatest hits.
Brian Wilson, the once-reclusive Beach Boys creative force, brings a new band to Westbury on Tuesday night. All but the title song, a Louis Armstrong oldie on his new "That Lucky Old Sun" CD, are set to Wilson melodies. The album could have followed up any Beach Boys classic, except it features only one Boy.
photos by Tim Griffin "Brian was really into the music and in command- He did about 50 minutes of Beach Boys stuff (including a great Marcella), than after intermission did the whole That Lucky Old Sun album-it was really good....
At his creative peak, Beach Boys auteur Brian Wilson retired from touring to concentrate on composition and production. Fighting back from a late-'60s nervous breakdown, Wilson returned to touring in 1999. Yet at concerts like the one he played Tuesday at the Warner Theatre, Wilson seems hardly...
Smiling liberated Brian Wilson. The act of completing his pop opus "Smile," 37 years after he'd abandoned it, suddenly reopened the creative floodgates for the reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Famer,...
Twin Cities News: — How Was The Show reviews the Bill Mike Band’s CD release show. — City Pages reviews Brian Wilson’s State Theatre show. — While presumably wearing women’s clothing, Prince gives it up for Prop 8. — Radio K has tossed a few more in-studio sessions online, including My Brightest Diamond and The Giraffes. — The Wake interviews [...]
I've been listening to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys since I was a little kid, and it never fails to brighten my no matter what else is happening. But by far the nicest song I've heard in a long time is Southern California from Brian's new album That Lucky Old Sun. It's a sweet ballad about his life with the Beach Boys and how dreams do come true. It does seem to make me want to be in California...
Market Wire Beach Boy Brian Wilson's concert at the Ryman Auditorium on Monday night was expected to be more of a celebration of the man's work than your usual concert experience. Wilson - who, after decades of … Read the full article here
LOS ANGELES -- It's always a risky venture for seasoned musicians to revisit the works of their youth. One recalls with dismay the Velvet Underground's "reunion" tour in the early 1990s, and Brian Wilson's live 2002 rerecording of the Beach Boys' 1966 song cycle "Pet Sounds" took a radiant and...
