Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who co-founded Beach Boys. After signing a contract with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-authored more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. In addition to his lifelong struggle with mental illness, Wilson is known for his unorthodox approach to the composition and mastery of pop recording techniques, and he is widely recognized as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the late 20th century.
The Beach Boys was formed by Brian, his brothers, Carl and Dennis, their cousin, Mike Love, and his friend Al Jardine. Brian, who grew up influenced by 1950s rock and roll and jazz groups, initially served as a songwriter, producer, vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. He co-authored, arranged and produced LP Pet Sounds (1966), considered one of the greatest albums ever made. The intended follow-up, Smile , was canceled for various reasons, including Wilson's deteriorating mental health. When he suffered repeated neurological disorders, Wilson's contribution to Beach Boys was diminished, and his erratic behavior caused tension with the band. In the 1970s, he became increasingly famous for his ascetic lifestyle and substance abuse. After the transfer of court orders from psychologist Eugene Landy's treatment, Wilson began receiving conventional medical care, and in the late 1990s, he began performing and recording consistently as a solo artist. He remains a member of the Beach Boys company, Brother Records Incorporated.
Wilson is the first pop artist to be credited for writing, organizing, producing, and doing his own material. He is considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the main originator of California Sound, one of the first music producers, and one of the most famous examples of outside musicians. Only 21 years old when he received the freedom to produce his own records with total creative autonomy, he sparked a similar-minded California producer explosion, replacing New York as a popular recording center, and became the first rock producer to use the studio as his own instrument. Wilson effectively set a precedent that allows bands and artists to enter the recording studio and act as their own producer or co-producer. The early 1960s Zeitgeist was commonly associated with his early songs, and he helped develop the continuing sound of the Flower Power era. In the following years, Wilson was considered a "godfather" for the era of indie musicians inspired by his melodic sensitivity, pop space orchestra, and exploratory recordings. He is often depicted in the media as "genius".
The awards included being included in the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and won the Grammy Awards for Brian Wilson Presents Smile (2004) and The Smile Sessions (2011). In the list published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranks 52 for "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" in 2008 and 12 for 100 Best Songwriters Throughout the Year 2015. In 2012, the music publication NME ranked Wilson number 8 in his "50 Greatest Producers Ever" list, explaining "some people are considering how innovative engineering techniques Brian Wilson was in the mid 60s." He is an occasional actor and voice actor, having appeared on other television shows, movies, and music videos of other artists. Her life was dramatized in biopic 2014 Love & amp; Grace
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Biografi
1942-1962: Awal tahun dan pertunjukan
Brian Douglas Wilson was born on June 20, 1942, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, California, the eldest son of Audree Neva (Korthof) and musician Murry Wilson. His two younger brothers are Dennis and Carl. He has Dutch, English, German, Irish and Swedish descent. When he was two years old, the family moved from Inglewood to 3701 West 119th Street near Hawthorne, California. Speaking of Brian's unusual musical abilities before his first birthday, his father says that, as a baby, he can repeat the melody of "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along" after just a few verses sung by his father. Murry Wilson said, "She's very smart and fast, I'm in love with her." At about the age of two, Brian heard George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue, which had a huge emotional impact on him. A few years later, he was found to have eased hearing in his right ear. The exact cause of this hearing loss is unclear, although theories range from the one who was born deaf because of the blow of the head from his father, or the environmental bully, to blame.
While Brian's father, Murry is a reasonable provider, he is often rude. As a musician and songwriter, he also encourages his children in this field in various ways. At an early age, Brian was given a six-week lesson on "toy accordion" and, at seven and eight, a solo singing at church with a choir behind him. At Hawthorne High School, Brian was on the soccer team as a quarterback, playing baseball and cross-country runners in his senior year. She sings with various students at school and with family and friends at home, teaching her two brothers to align the parts that all three will practice. He also played the piano obsessively after school, deconstructing the harmony of Four The Freshmen by listening to a short segment of their songs on the phonograph, then working to recreate the sounds that came out. Note by note on the keyboard. He received a Wollensak tape recorder on his 16th birthday, allowing him to experiment with recording songs and early group vocals.
One of Brian's earliest public performances was in the fall art program at his high school. He enrolled his cousin and often sang Mike Love's partner, and to draw Carl's attention into the group, named the newly formed "Carl and the Passions." The show featured songs by Dion and Belmonts and Four Freshmen ("This is the Blue World"), the latter proving difficult to ensemble. The show is famous for the impression made on other musicians and classmates Brian in the audience that night, Al Jardine, who will join three brothers Wilson and Mike Love a few years later at Beach Boys.
Wilson enrolled at El Camino College in Los Angeles, majoring in psychology, in September 1960. He continued his music studies in college as well. At one point in 1961 he wrote his first all-original melody, loosely based on Dion and Belmonts versions of "When You Wish Upon a Star". The song was finally known as "Surfer Girl". Although the initial demo of the song was recorded in February 1962 at World-Pacific Studios, it was not re-recorded and released until 1963, when it became a top ten hit.
Wilson, his brothers, Carl and Dennis, Mike Love and Al Jardine first emerged as a musical group in the summer of 1961, originally under the name Pendletones. After being encouraged by Dennis to write a song about the local water sports madness, Wilson and Mike Love together created what became the band's first single, "Surfin". At the end of Labor Day 1961, Brian took advantage of the fact that his parents were in Mexico City for several days, and the children used the emergency money left by his parents to hire amplifiers, microphones and stand-up bass for Jardine to play. After the boys practiced for two days in the Wilsons music room, his parents came home from their journey. Finally impressed, Murry Wilson proclaimed himself as the group manager and the band started serious training for a proper studio session.
Recorded by Hite and Dorinda Morgan and released on a small label Candix Records, "Surfin '" became the top local hit in Los Angeles and reached number seventy-five on the national Billboard charts. Dennis then described the first time that his brother heard their song on the radio, when three brothers Wilson and David Marks drove in Wilson in 1957 Ford in the rain: "Nothing will ever surpass Brian's facial expression, ever... that is a moment all the time. "However, Pendletones no longer exists. Without the band's knowledge or permission, Candix Records has changed their name to Beach Boys. Wilson and his bandmates, following a set by Ike & amp; Tina Turner, performed their first major live show on Ritchie Valens Memorial Dance on New Year's Eve, 1961. Three days earlier, Wilson's father had bought him a bass and electric amplifier. Wilson had learned to play the instrument in no time, with Al Jardine moving to a rhythm guitar. Onstage, Wilson provides many main vocals, and is often aligned with the group in falsetto.
Looking for follow-up singles for their radio hits, Wilson and Mike Love wrote "Surfin 'Safari", and attempts were made to record retrieval that could be used in World Pacific, including overdubs, on February 8, 1962, along with several other songs including an early version of " Surfer Girl ". Only a few days later, discouraged about the band's financial prospects, and objected to adding some Chubby Checker songs to the live set of Beach Boys, Al Jardine suddenly left the group, but rejoined shortly thereafter. When Candix Records encountered money problems and sold the recording of the Beach Boys master to another label, Murry Wilson terminated the contract. When "Surfin '" faded from the charts, Brian, who had established a songwriting partnership with Gary Usher, created several new songs, including the car song, "409", used by Usher to help them write. Brian and the Beach Boys cut new songs in Western Recorders including the updated "Surfin 'Safari" and "409". These songs convince Capitol Records to release demos as singles; they became a two-sided national hit.
1962-1964: Successful and noted generate
The recording sessions for the band's first album took place in the Capitol basement studios in the famous tower building in August 1962, but at the beginning Brian lobbied for different places to bypass the Beach Boy tracks. Large rooms were built to record large orchestras and ensembles of the 1950s, not small rock groups. At Brian's insistence, the Capitol agreed to let the Beach Boys pay for their own outdoor recording sessions, where the Capitol will have all the rights, and in return the band will receive a higher royalty rate on their record sales. In addition, during the recording of their first LP Brian fought for, and won, the right to be responsible for production - though this fact was not recognized with record production record cards production.
In January 1963, Beach Boys recorded their first top song (number three in the United States), "Surfin 'U.S.A.", who started their highly successful recording business at Hollywood United Western Recorders on Sunset Boulevard. During the session for this single Brian made a production decision from then on to use double tracking on group vocals, producing deeper and more resonating sounds. The Surfin 'U.S.A. The album was also a big hit in the United States, reaching number two on the national sales charts in early July 1963. The Beach Boys has been a recording and tour of top-ranked bands.
Brian is for the first time officially credited as a Beach Boys producer on the Surfer Girl album, recorded in June and July 1963 and released in September. The LP reached number seven on the national charts, containing singles that reached the top 15 hits. Feeling that the surfing songs have become limited, Brian decided to produce a largely car-oriented set of songs for the fourth album of the Beach Boys, Little Deuce Coupe, released in October 1963, just three weeks afterwards. Surfer Girl LP. The departure of guitarist David Marks from the lunar band meant that Brian was forced to go on tour with the Beach Boys, temporarily reducing his availability in the recording studio.
For decades, Brian has been trying to establish himself as a record producer by working with various artists. On July 20, 1963, "Surf City", which he wrote with Jan Berry of Jan and Dean, was his first composition to reach the top of the US charts. The resulting success delighted Brian, but infuriated both Murry and Capitol Records. Murry goes so far as to order his eldest son to decide on future collaborations with Jan and Dean. Other non-Beach Boy jobs Brian in this period included tracks by Castells, Donna Loren, Sharon Marie, Timers, and Survivors. The most prominent group in which Wilson would attach himself to this era was Honeys, whom Wilson intended as a female partner for the Beach Boys, and in an effort to compete with the girl group led by Phil Spector such as Kristal and Ronettes.. He continues to juggle between recordings with Beach Boys and produce recordings for other artists, but with little success on the latter - except Jan and Dean.
1964-1967: Artistic Growth
Resignation from tour and scene change
The strict implementation schedule of The Beach Boys weighed heavily on Wilson, and after a panic attack on the flight from L.A. to Houston on December 23, 1964, he stopped performing live with the group in an attempt to concentrate solely on songwriting and studio production. Wilson explains in 1971: "I feel that I have no choice, I have a mental and emotional deterioration as I run, jump on a jet from one city to another in one night stand, also produce, write, organize, sing, plan, teaching - to the point where I have no peace of mind and no chance to really sit down and think or even rest. "Glen Campbell was called as a substitute for live performances, before Bruce Johnston succeeded him. As a thank you, Wilson "rewarded" Campbell by producing him with the single "Guess I'm Dumb".
It was in December that Wilson was introduced to cannabis hesitantly by his friend Lorren Daro (formerly Loren Schwartz), an assistant at the William Morris Agency. Attracted by the drug's ability to alleviate stress and inspire creativity, Wilson completed the upcoming "Beach Boys" Beach Boys "album at the end of January 1965 and quickly started work the next day, Summer Days . One time in April, Wilson had his first sour journey, which had a profound effect on his musical and spiritual concepts. Again, Daro hesitates to provide medicine for Wilson, whom he does not feel he is ready for, but has told him that his dose is "one hundred and twenty-five mics of Owsley pure," and that "he has a full death on the ego. It's a beautiful thing. "The music for" California Girls "comes from this first LSD experience, a composition that will be released as a # 3 charting single. Wilson continues to experiment with psychotropics over the next few years, sometimes even during recording sessions. He became fixated on psychedelia, claiming to have created a slang, "psychedelicate," and predicted that "psychedelic music would cover the face of the world and color the entire world of popular music." A week after his first LSD trip, Wilson began to suffer from auditory hallucinations, which had lasted his entire life.
Pet Voice , " genius "promotion, and smile
In late 1965, Wilson began working on material for a new project, Pet Voice . He formed a temporary songwriting partnership with lyricist Tony Asher, who was suggested to Wilson by a friend with Daro. Wilson, who had recorded the album instrumentation with Wrecking Crew, then collected the Beach Boys to record vocal overdubs, after they returned from a Japanese tour. After hearing what Wilson had created for the first time in 1965, the group, especially Mike Love, was somewhat critical of their leader's music, and expressed their dissatisfaction. By this time, Wilson still had considerable control in the group and, according to Wilson, they finally overcame their initial negative reaction, because the new music he created was almost complete. The album was released May 16, 1966, and, despite the modest sales figures at the time, has since become widely acknowledged, often cited among the greatest albums of all time. Although the record was issued under the group's name, Pet Sounds was arguably seen as Brian Wilson's solo album. Wilson even toyed with the idea with the release of "Caroline, No" as a solo single in March 1966, reaching number 32 on the Billboard chart.
During the Pet Voice session, Wilson had worked on another song, which was held back from inclusion on the recording because he felt that it was not complete enough. The song "Good Vibrations" sets new standards for musicians and for what can be achieved in the recording studio. Recorded in several sessions and in many studios, the song eventually cost $ 50,000 (equivalent to $ 377,128 in 2017) to record in a six-month period. In October 1966, released as a single, gave Beach Boys their third US number after "I Get Around" and "Help Me, Rhonda". It sold over a million copies.
Moments after Pet Sounds was released, Der Be Taylor's press agent Derek Taylor started working as a publicist for the Beach Boys. He gradually became aware of Wilson's reputation as a "genius" among his fellow musicians, a belief not possessed at the time. Motivated by Brian's musical abilities, Taylor responded with a campaign that would rebuild the band's out-of-date surfing image, and was the first to praise Brian as a "genius". According to Van Dyke Parks, this is "very embarrassing for Brian".
At the time of Universal's "Good Vibrations" universal success, Wilson was working on his next project, Smile, which Wilson described as "a teenage symphony of God." "Good Vibrations" has been recorded in a modular style, with separately written sections tracked and jointed together, and Wilson's concept for a new album is more similar, representing a departure from a typical live-recorded performance typical of studio recordings at the time. time. After being introduced to Van Dyke Parks at a garden party at Terry Melcher's home, Wilson liked Park's "visionary eloquence" and began working with him in the fall of 1966. After Wilson installed sandboxes and tents in his living room, the couple was famous. collaborate closely on some songs Smile . The conflict within the group and personal problems that Wilson developed himself made the project chaotic. Originally scheduled for release in January 1967, the release date continued to be pushed back until press officer Derek Taylor announced his cancellation in May 1967.
1967-1975: Career decline
Home studio, institutionalization and reduction of band involvement
After the cancellation of Smile , Beach Boys moved into a studio located in Brian Wilson's new living room in Bel Air (once the home of Edgar Rice Burroughs), where the band will mainly record until 1972. It has felt by some commentators as "the moment when the first Beach Boys start slipping from the front row to nostalgia." Throughout the middle to late 1967, Wilson oversaw the production of only a few highly organized songs that held continuity with his Pet Sounds and Smile works such as "Can not Wait Too Long" and " Time to Own ". Wilson's interest in the Beach Boys began to wane. Carl explains: "When we did Wild Honey, Brian asked me to get involved in the final recording, he wanted to rest, he was tired, he'd been doing it too long."
Still psychologically overwhelmed by the cancellation of Smile and the immediate birth of his first child Carnie Wilson in 1968 amid shadowing the financial bankruptcy of Beach Boys, Wilson's creative director in the band became increasingly tenuous; In addition, cocaine has begun to complement the regular use of amphetamines, marijuana, and psychedelic Wilson. Not long after leaving the elaborate arrangement of the "Human River Ol" Kern and Hammerstein, at the instigation of Mike Love, Wilson entered a mental hospital for a short period of time. Biographer Peter Ames Carlin has speculated that Wilson has self-confessed and may have been given a number of treatments ranging from talk therapy to Lithium doses and electroconvulsive therapy during this stay.
In his absence, 1969 <2020 substantially consists of the censored Smile keys ("Cabinessence" and "Our Prayer") along with the old "Time to Gain Alone" germination. The album's main song, Wilson/Love-authored "Do It Again", was a tireless setback to the band's previous surf hits, and was an international hit in the summer of 1968, reaching number 20 on the US and number 1 charts in the UK and Australia while also scoring well in other countries. During this phase, Wilson also collaborated with his father (credited under the pseudonym Reggie Dunbar) on "Break Away", the band's last single for Capitol Records under their original contract; Although relatively unsuccessful in the US (peaking at number 63 on Billboard ), the song reached number 6 on the UK singles chart.
At a press conference held to promote "Break Away" to the European media shortly thereafter, Wilson hinted that "We owe a lot of money to everyone, and if we do not take our own support and have an immediate hit record, we will be in trouble worse... I always say, 'Be honest with your fans.' I do not understand why I should lie and say that everything is bright when it does not. "This burning statement eventually frustrated the old contract negotiations with Deutsche Grammophon. Despite the sale of Murry Wilson from the Sea of ​​the publishing company Tunes (including most of Wilson's oeuvre) to the publishing division of A & amp; M Records for $ 700,000 at the band's nadir commercial point in 1969 renewing the old animus between father and son, the younger Wilson stood in for Mike Love during the 1970 Northwest tour when Love recovered from illness. He also re-wrote and recorded with Beach Boys in quick steps; seven of the twelve new songs on the 1970 album Sunflower were written or co-authored by Wilson. Nevertheless, the album (retrospectively rated as "probably the strongest album they release post- Pet Voice " by Pitchfork ) is a commercial failure in the US, peaking at number 151 during the chart Billboard for four weeks remained in October 1970. After the termination of the Capitol contract in 1969, the band's new contract with Reprise Records in the past-au (brokered by Van Dyke Parks, used as a multimedia executive in the company at the time) defined Brian Wilson's proactive engagement with the band on all albums, a factor that would be very problematic for the band in the coming years.
Bedroom Tapes, American Spring, and Radiant Radish
One time in 1969, Wilson opened a short-lived health food store called The Radiant Radish. The store was closed in 1971 due to unfavorable outcomes and a lack of business acumen Wilson. Reports from this era describe Wilson as "increasingly resigned, meditative, recluse... and sometimes, he must be seen behind a few limousines, circling around Hollywood, foggy and unshaven, huddled tightly into himself. " This idea was opposed by lyricist and close friend Stanley Shapiro. However, Wilson's reputation suffered as a result of his eccentricity, and he was quickly recognized as a commercial company suspected of record labels. When Shapiro persuaded Wilson to rewrite and re-record a number of Beach Boys songs to regain his legacy, he contacted fellow songwriter Tandyn Almer (whom Wilson would categorize as his "best friend") for support. The three then spend a month of re-deduction of the Beach Boys' Friends album. When Shapiro submitted a demo tape to A & amp; M Records executives, they found a profitable product before they knew of Wilson and Almer's involvement, and began vetoing the idea. Wilson commented in 1976:
Once you are branded a genius, you must continue it or your name becomes mud. I am a victim of the recording industry. I do not think I'm a genius. I think I have a talent. But I do not think I'm a genius.
Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wilson collected many home demo recordings that were later informally known as "Bedroom Tapes". Most of these recordings remain unreleased and are not heard by the public. Some of the material has been described as "schizophrenia on tape," and "the very strong personal songs of gentle humanism and strange experiments, reflected in its fragile emotional state." Beach Boys archiver observer Alan Boyd observes: "A lot of the music that Brian invented during this period is full of synoptic and counterpoint exercises stacked on top of anxious tapping groups and shuffle loping grooves.You get hinted about that before in things like tags for 'California Girls', 'Would not It Be Nice' and all across Smile , but it takes on an almost manic edge in the 70s.Brian Brian, Wendy, remember, "Where people another might run for the release of stress, he would go to the piano and write a 5 minute song. "His sister Carnie has recounted:" My memory of her is she is wandering from room to room... thinking about something . I always wanted to know what he was thinking, you know? Who knows what he thinks in his head?... We are familiar with what the whole neighborhood is. It's very musical, there's always a piano going. Either "Rhapsody in Blue" is playing, or... "Be My Baby" - I mean - I wake up every morning to boom boom-boom pow! Boom boom-boom pow! Every day. "
While working at Radiant Radish, Wilson met journalist and radio presenter Jack Rieley, who will manage the Beach Boys and act as Wilson's main lyricist for the next few years. Wilson played and sang on 1971's numerous albums. Surf's Up - the highest-rated American band album (No. 29) since 1967 - and wrote or co-authored four of the ten album tracks, including the title track. Only one original song that was formed entirely from Wilson appeared during the album's nominal recording sessions, such as "A Day in the Life of a Tree". According to engineer Stephen Desper, the cumulative effect of cocaine and tobacco use Wilson began to severely affect his vocal register during the Surf's Up session.
In late 1971 and early 1972, he worked on an album for American Spring, titled Spring, a new collaboration between Honeys Marilyn Wilson and Diane Rovell. He was closely involved in home-based recordings with co-producer David Sandler and engineer Stephen Desper, and performed significant work on more than half of the track. Like most of his works in his day, his contributions "receded and flowed." According to Dan Peek of America, Wilson "held a court like King Gila as [old friend] Danny Hutton rushed like a court jester" during an influential band engagement at Whiskey a Go Go in February 1972. Simultaneously, he contributed to three of the eight songs on the Beach Boys' Carl and the Passions - "So Tough" (1972).
Later that year, he reluctantly agreed to accompany the band to Holland, where they based themselves to record Holland . Although physically present, he often succumbs to his bad nature (especially hashish and hard cider) and rarely participates, limits himself to working on "Funky Pretty" (collaboration with Mike Love and Jack Rieley); a one-line introduction was sung to Algardian's "California Saga: California"; and Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale), a narrative space inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away music that the band immediately rejected. However, Carl Wilson finally gave in and ensured that the suite would be released as an EP bonus with the album. When the album itself was rejected by Reprise, the song "Sail On, Sailor" - a collaboration with the evolving 1971 Van Dyke Parks to include additional lyrical contributions requested by Wilson at parties hosted by Hutton - inserted in incitement Park and released as the main single. It immediately garnered a large number of FM radio, became a small hit chart, and entered the live band set as the concert principal.
In 1973, Jan Berry (under JAN aka) released the single "Do not You Just Know It", a duet featuring Wilson.
Period of conversion
Wilson spent much of two years after his father's death in June 1973, at the residence of the driver; sleeping, abusing alcohol, taking drugs (including heroin), overeating, and demonstrating self-destructive behavior. He tried to drive his vehicle off the cliff, and at other times, demanded that he be pushed in and buried in the grave he dug in his backyard. During this period, his voice deteriorated significantly as a result of the mass consumption of cocaine and smokers nonstop. Wilson later said that he was busy with "drugs and hanging out with Danny Hutton" (whose home became the center of Wilson's social life) during the mid-1970s. John Sebastian often appears in Wilson's Bel Air home "for jam" and then remembers that "it's not all sadness." Despite getting closed during the day, Wilson spent many nights at Hutton's house hanging out with his Hollywood Vampire counterparts such as Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, who were fooled by left-handed songs from the folk song "Shortnin 'Bread"; Other visitors from Hutton's house include Vampires Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and Keith Moon. Micky Dolenz recalls taking LSD with Wilson, Lennon, and Nilsson, in which Wilson "played just one note on the piano again and again". On several occasions, Marilyn Wilson sends her friends to climb Hutton's fence and take back her husband.
Jimmy Webb reported Wilson's presence at the August 2, 1974 session for Nilsson's "Salmon Falls"; he kept behind the studio playing "Da Doo Ron Ron" haphazardly in the B3 organ. Later that month, she was photographed at the 28th birthday party (held on August 28th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel) wearing only a bathrobe. One time in 1974, Wilson interrupted a set by jazz musician Larry Coryell at The Troubadour by jumping onto the stage and singing "Be-Bop-A-Lula", again wearing slippers and bathrobes.
During the summer of 1974, the greatest hit compilation of the greatest Capitol-era Cap
Although still under contract for Warner Brothers, Wilson signed a side production deal with Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher's Equinox Records in early 1975. Together, they founded a loose super group known as California Music, which involved them along with LA musicians Gary Usher, Curt Boettcher, and a few others. The contract was canceled by the Beach Boys management, who saw it as an attempt by Wilson to ease the burden of his growing drug expenses, and it demanded that Wilson concentrate his efforts on the Beach Boys, even though he desperately wanted to escape. of the group. The idea of ​​California Music was soon crushed.
1975-1992: Grounding Interventions
First care
Marilyn and the Wilson family are worried about Brian's continued deterioration and are reluctant to pay him as an active partner in the Beach Boys tour (a one-decade setting). They enlisted the services of radical therapist Eugene Landy in October 1975. Landy diagnosed Brian as paranoid schizophrenic (the diagnosis was later recalled), and the treatment encouraged a more stable and socially engaged Brian whose productivity increased again. Tagline "Brian's Back!" became the main promotional tool for the new album Beach Boys 15 Big Ones , which was released to coincide with their fifteenth anniversary as a band as a mixture of traditional pop covers with newly written original material. The record was released in the summer of 1976 for commercial praise and, despite the warm reviews, peaked at number 8 on the Billboard album chart. Brian returned to a regular stage performance with the band, alternating between piano and bass, and making solo appearances on Saturday Night Live in November 1976; to be disappointed from other Beach Boys, producer Lorne Michaels specified Brian's exclusive performance.
Brian's behavior has been reported by many to be strange and off-putting, and Landy's role is described as "unethical" and fancy. Often, Wilson will ask for medication in mid-interview. During this period, Brian was always watched by bodyguards, whom he hated. Rolling Stone editor David Felton notes a strange quarrel between Brian and Landy in "The Healing of Brother Brian", a profile of the resurgent band published by the magazine in November 1976; this includes reports of Landy medical staff who promised Brian a cheeseburger instead of writing new songs.
Brian expressed a strong desire to leave the group and record a solo album in this period but could not, because the conflict would occur between him and the group, leading him to comment, "Sometimes I feel like a commodity in the stock market." it is also clear that he wants to record another work equivalent to the achievement of Pet Voice . In April 1977, Brian's all-original album Love You was released with the nickname of Beach Boys, although the group's contribution was minimal. It was described by Brian as an attempt to free himself from mental instability caused by periods of inactivity. Love You has been cited as the initial work of synthpop. The album features delightful lyrics (alternately using Johnny Carson, Phil Spector, and teenage interest) and striking instrumentation (featuring a Moog bass line and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns that reflect contemporary works by David Bowie and Tony Visconti). Although Love You only reached number 53 on the Billboard chart, it was hailed as artistic by many critics, including punk rock lodestar Patti Smith (writing for Hit Parader >) and Robert Christgau from The Village Voice .
Brian was under Landy's care for fourteen months until December 1976, when the therapist was dismissed for a dispute over his monthly fee. Over the next few years, Brian bobbed between periods of relative stability (writing or writing together eight of twelve badly received badly received songs in 1978 and his resurrection of addiction. During this period Marilyn and Brian were peacefully divorced in 1979 because of the erratic behavior of their families. He repeatedly checks in and out of the hospital and is constantly harassed by unrelenting mood swings. At one point, he walked alone for a few days and was seen in a gay bar playing the piano for drinks. For a short time in 1978, he lived as a homeless man in Balboa Park, San Diego until police officers took him to Alvarado Hospital for alcohol poisoning. Brian's role in the band, as well as the commercial prospects of the Beach Boys, began to diminish once more. In 1982, Brian sank into debt, as the government paid tens of thousands of dollars in taxes.
Second Care
After Brian overdosed on a combination of alcohol, cocaine, and other psychoactive drugs, Landy once again worked, and a more radical program was done to try to restore Brian's health. It involves removing him from the Beach Boys on November 5, 1982 on the orders of Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine, in addition to isolating him from his family and friends in Hawaii, and placing him on a strict diet and health regimen.. According to Carolyn Williams, Brian refused to meet Landy: "They told him that the only way he could become Beach Boy again, and the only way they would release his tour disbursement money in 1982, is if he agrees to see Dr. Landy, Brian started shouting that he did not like Dr. Landy and that [Landy] picked him up $ 20,000 a month last time He was willing to see someone to lose weight but he did not want to see Landy "And they say, 'Well, no, you have to meet Dr. Landy. That's the only way. '"Landy describes the program he gave to Brian in The Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies :
The success of the twenty-four hour therapy lies in the extent to which the therapeutic team can exercise control over every aspect of the patient's life.... [The goal is to] really disturb the patient's privacy [,] gain complete control over every aspect of their physical, personal, social, and sexual environment.
Coupled with long and extreme counseling sessions, this therapy successfully brings Brian back to physical health, losing weight from 311 pounds (141 kg) to 185 pounds (84 kg). When the consolidation of Brian was consolidated, he rejoined Beach Boys for Live Aid in 1985 and participated in the recording of Steve Levine's The Beach Boys album. Brian quit working with Beach Boys regularly after the release of the album, largely due to Landy's control. Finally, Landy's therapy techniques create an environment like Svengali for Brian, controlling every move in his life, including the direction of his music. In the mid-1980s, Landy stated, "I affect all thoughts [Brian].I am practically a band member... [We] partners in life." Brian then responds to the accusation with, "People say that Dr. Landy is running my life, but the reality is, I am responsible."
Between 1983 and 1986, Landy charged about $ 430,000 per year. When he asked for more money, Carl Wilson was obliged to give a quarter of Brian's royalties. In 1988, Wilson said that "Dr. Landy does not like me to have too much contact with family, he thinks it's not healthy." Landy responds to the accusation that he is giving too much control to the songwriter: "He has a car phone in his car.If he wants to call someone, he calls someone... He can go anywhere, alone, whenever he wants." Wilson with the Beach Boys at the time, Wilson added: "Although we remain together as a group, as our people are far from friends, we once interviewed, and the interviewer asked Carl what it was between him and me. 'Well, Brian and I do not have to talk to each other We're only Beach Boys, but we do not need to be friends.' And that's true, although, every time I think about it, I feel rotten. "
Debut solo album
Brian Wilson signed a solo recording contract with Sire Records label boss Seymour Stein and worked with Andy Paley, Russ Titelman and girlfriend Landy as coauthor on the new material. Old friend and collaborator Gary Usher was a key participant in the initial demo work for the album, though Landy later moved him from the project. After several years of genesis, Wilson released his debut solo album Brian Wilson . His work may have been hampered by Landy's influence, since Landy insisted on controlling involvement in every aspect of Wilson's writing and recording and the effect of his lyrics was significant.
Despite the critical success of his debut solo album, rumors abounded that Wilson had suffered a stroke or been permanently disabled due to excessive drug use. The real problem is that Wilson, who has been prescribed a large amount of psychotropic drugs by Landy staff since 1983, has developed tardive dyskinesia, a neurological condition characterized by an unintentional recurrent movement, which develops in about 20 percent of patients treated with anti-psychotics. drugs for long periods of time. During the recording of Brian Wilson's album, the engineering staff had observed what appeared to be "every pharmacy on earth," referring to the drug bag Landy used to store Wilson's prescription drug. Landy was separated from Brian Wilson in 1989. However, they remain business partners. The second solo album that Wilson submitted under Landy's direction, entitled Sweet Insanity, was rejected by Sire in 1990.
A fake memoir, Is not It Be Nice: My Own Story , was published in 1991. In the book, whose authorship is still debated, Brian Wilson talks about his troubled relationship with his rude father Murry, his personal strife with the Beach Boys and the lost years of his mental illness. The illegal use of psychotropic drugs by Landy over Wilson, and his influence on financial affairs Brian Wilson, is legally terminated by Carl Wilson and other members of the Wilson family after a two-year conservatory battle in Los Angeles. Landy's mistakes led to the loss of California's psychological license, as well as court orders and detention orders from Brian.
1990s-2010s: The solo tour and awakening
Collaboration and unfinished projects
Wilson released two albums simultaneously in 1995. The first was the soundtrack for the documentary Don Was Just Made not For This Time, which consists of new versions of some Beach Boys and solo songs. The second, Crate Art Orange , sees Wilson as the lead vocalist on the album produced, organized and written by Van Dyke Parks. I Was Not Invented for This Time including Wilson performing for the first time with his now grown daughter, Wendy and Carnie from Wilson Phillips and Van Dyke Parks group. During the early 1990s, he also worked on several tracks with pop band Jellyfish bands, which have remained unreleased. Roger Manning had told anecdotes during this session that Wilson had fallen asleep on the piano but continued to play. Later in the decade, Wilson and his daughter Carnie and Wendy will be releasing a joint album, titled The Wilsons (1997). Also, around this time, Wilson sang backup vocals at Belinda Carlisle's "California".
After missing the 27th studio album of The Beach Boys Summer in Paradise, Wilson returned to the Beach Boys for a sporadic recording session and live performances during the early to mid 1990s. Working with collaborators Andy Paley and Don Was, sessions were reported to be tenuous. It has also been discussed that Wilson and Beach Boys will work with Sean O'Hagan from High Llamas on comeback albums for Wilson and Beach Boys. All the projects collapsed, and conversely, Wilson was involved with the 1996 album Beach Boys Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 : group collaboration, supporting country music artist singing main vocal of Beach Boys standard.
In 1998, he teamed up with Chicago-based producer Joe Thomas for the Imagination album. After this, he received extensive vocal training to improve his voice, learn to cope with his stage fright, and start consistently performing life for the first time in decades. This resulted in Wilson successfully performing the entire album Pet Sounds directly across the US, UK and Europe. In 1999, Wilson filed a lawsuit against Thomas, seeking damages and declarations that freed him to work on his next album without any involvement from Thomas. The lawsuit was made after Thomas allegedly began raising his industry profile and wrongfully enriching himself through his relationship with Wilson. Thomas countered with a lawsuit stating that Melinda Wilson "conspired against and manipulated" him and Wilson. This case was settled out of court. Wilson's third solo album Gettin 'In Over My Head (2004) featured a collaboration with Elton John, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton and brother Carl, who died of lung cancer in February 1998.
Brian Wilson Brings Smiles
With his mental health improving, Wilson decided to review the canceled smile project from 1967. Assisted by old musician and enthusiast Darian Sahanaja of Wondermints, and lyricist Van Dyke Parks, Wilson re-formulated the session material into something which will work in the immediate context. His work was finally revealed in a concert on February 20, 2004, 37 years after it was conceived, though he later stated that the finished product was substantially different from what was originally envisioned. Wilson began his interpretation in 2004 on Smile at Royal Festival Hall in London and then toured in England. After the tour, Brian Wilson Presents Smile was recorded, and released in September 2004. The release reached number 13 on the Billboard chart. At the 47th Grammy Awards in 2005, Wilson won his first Grammy for the song "Mrs O'Leary's Cow" as Best Rock Instrumental. In 2004, Wilson promoted Brian Wilson Presents Smile with a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
In February 2005, Wilson had a cameo in the 24th century Duck Dodgers television series as spiritual adviser Daffy Duck. On June 26, 2005, Wilson appeared at the Glastonbury Festival in England for critical success. On July 2, 2005, Wilson appeared for the Live 8 concert in Berlin, Germany. In September 2005, Wilson arranged a charity trip to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, where people who donated $ 100 or more would receive personal phone calls from Wilson. According to the website, more than $ 250K is raised. In November 2005, former bandmate Mike Love sued Wilson for "shamelessly misusing... Love Boys' songs, likenesses and trademarks, as well as his own 'Smile' album in the Smile promotion >. The lawsuit was eventually dismissed on the grounds that it was unfounded.
In December 2005, Wilson released What I Want Actually for Christmas for Arista Records. The release reached number 200 on the Billboard chart, although sales were modest. Remake Wilson from "Deck the Halls" became the Top 10 hit Adult Contemporary hit. She appeared on the 2005 holiday episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , doing "Deck the Halls" for children with xeroderma pigmentosum (hypersensitivity to sunlight) at Walt Disney World Resort.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pet Sound, Wilson embarked on a brief tour in November 2006. Beach Boy Al Jardine accompanied Wilson for the tour.
Old Lucky Sun and reunion band
Wilson released Lucky Old Sun in September 2008. It originally debuted in a series of September 2007 concerts at the Royal Festival Hall in London, and in January 2008 at Sydney's State Theater while accompanying the Sydney Festival. Wilson describes the piece as "... Ã, consisting of five 'rounds', with interspersed words." A series of US and British concerts precede its launch. On September 30, 2008, Seattle's Light on Attic Records released A World of Peace Must Come , a collaboration between Wilson and Stephen Kalinich, originally recorded in 1969, but later lost in Kalinich's cabinets.
Around this time, Wilson announced that he was developing another concept album, entitled Pleasure Island: A Rock Fantasy . Thus: "It's about some people who do climbing, and they find a place called Pleasure Island, and they meet all kinds of chicks, and they go up and - it's just a concept I have not developed it. will love it - it could be the best thing I've ever done. "The album has not yet surfaced, and for several years, Wilson consistently maintained in interviews that he wanted the" next album "to be more rock-oriented.
In the summer of 2009, Wilson signed a two-record contract with Disney after he was approached to record his interpretation albums on Gershwin songs, and to assess Gershwin's unfinished piano pieces for possible expansion into ready-made songs. After extensive evaluation of a large number of Gershwin fragments, Wilson chose two to complete. The resulting album, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin , was released in August 2010 on the Pearl Mutiara label. Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin reached # 1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart, and has sold 53,000 copies in August 2011. Wilson's second album for Disney is In Disney Key Rolling Stone praised Wilson's version as "beautiful," showing "... angel harmony and fine instrumentation."
The official release of Beach Boys from the original recording, partly finished Smile supervised by Wilson for compilation, titled The Smile Sessions , was released on October 31, 2011.
In October 2011, Jardine reported that the Beach Boys will reunite in 2012 for 50 American dates and 50-60 overseas dates. The Beach Boys released their new album, That's Why God Made the Radio , on June 5, 2012. The album's title track was released as its first single in April 2012. The new album debuted at number 3 on the chart Billboard which is their highest debut album to date. After the reunion a year later, it was announced that Wilson would no longer tour with the band when Mike Love returned the lineup to the Tour configuration before Birthday with him and Bruce Johnston as the only members.
2013-present
On June 6, 2013, the Wilson website announced that it was recording and producing new material with guitarist Jeff Beck, session musician/producer Don Was, and fellow Beach Boys Al Jardine, David Marks and Blondie Chaplin. On June 20, the website announced that the material might be divided into three albums: one new pop song, the other mostly an instrumental track with Beck, and another song dubbed the "the suite" which originally started as a cover of four songs from That's Why God Made The Radio . In January 2014, Wilson insisted that he did not write any new material with Beck, that Beck was just a guest musician on the songs he wrote and no duo were recorded together that would appear on his upcoming album.
Winning in September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival, Wilson attended the first screening of Love & amp; Mercy , a biopic of his life directed by Bill Pohlad. On October 7, 2014, the BBC released a new version of "God Only Knows" with guest appearances by Wilson, Brian May, Elton John, Jake Bugg, Stevie Wonder, Lorde, and many others. It was recorded to celebrate the BBC Music launch. A week later, Wilson appeared as guest vocalist for Emile Haynie's single "Falling Apart". The cover of Paul McCartney "Wanderlust" was contributed by Wilson to the Art of McCartney tribute album, released in November 2014.
Nearly two years after the recording began, Wilson released his eleventh solo album, No Pier Pressure, on April 7, 2015. The thirteen track album (deluxe edition containing three bonus tracks was also released) featured many guest appearances including Al Jardine , David Marks and Blondie Chaplin. Fun's Nate Ruess, She & amp; He's Zooey Deschanel and M Ward, Capital City 'Sebu Simonian, along with Kacey Musgraves and Peter Hollens. Earlier in January 2015, Wilson contributed vocals for the single Mini Mansions "Any Emotions" from The Great Pretenders album. On September 17, 2015, Wilson announced that he will play the November 4 benefit concert as part of a new partnership with the Campaign for Changing Directions. The results of the concert will be given to provide free mental health services to veterans.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Voice, Wilson started the 50th Anniversary World Tour in April 2016. It was promoted as his last performance on the album. An autobiography titled I Am Brian Wilson, co-written by ghost author Ben Greenman, was published in October 2016. That same month, Wilson announced a new album, Sensitive Music for Sensitive People , consisting of original songs and rock and roll cover. He described the name as "the title of work", and the recording will begin in December 2016.
Wilson will be back again during Sarasota for the Christmas event, where he will be doing the Christmas holiday album of 1964. He will join former Beach Boys members, Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine.
Maps Brian Wilson
Musician
Wilson's understanding of music theory is self-taught. The first instrument he learned to play was a toy accordion before quickly moving to a piano and then a bass guitar. From an early age, Wilson showed amazing skills to learn music with ears on the keyboard. According to the bassist Carol Kaye, "He took a bass of another step, he saw it as an integral in a symphonic orchestra, he used bass as a framework for hit records, very few people could write for bass, but his writing was beautiful, and there were many jazz musicians who admired him. "
The work of record producer Phil Spector, who popularized the Wall of Sound, is a focussed obsession for Wilson. In the 1960s, Wilson regarded Spector as "the single most influential producer, eternal he made a milestone whenever he entered the studio." Wilson later reflected: "I can not really think of being a producer until I'm really familiar with Phil Spector's work, and that's when I started designing an experience to be a recording rather than just a song." Wilson's work is sometimes characterized as an avant-garde pop. Critics Michael Hann cites "the extraordinary turmoil of avant-pop creativity between 1965 and 1967". In the belief of author Richard Goldstein: "[Wilson] never realized his full potential as a composer.In the light of electronica and minimalism, you can see how advanced his ideas are, but they keep inspiring bursts of minds that can not" mobilize themselves into a whole. This is a big rock tragedy in the sixties. "
Wilson believed after he first dropped LSD in 1965: "It expands my mind a bit, so I can write better songs... [While] it's worth it, I will not take it again." He has said that "It's not easy for me, so many things that make me scared in my life - I have a lot of fear, I mean, boy, just all the notes that scare me, so many notes just shake my world, my friend. It's heavy. "He was named" What a Fool Believes "(1978) as a song he considered a" scary record "and once believed that Procol Harum's" A Whiter Shade of Pale "was his funeral parade. He denied that the Beatles had ever influenced him, only they inspired him. Alice Cooper reports that Wilson once considered the traditional "Shortnin 'Bread" standard as the greatest song ever written, when he quoted Wilson for an explanation: "I do not know, this is just the best song ever written."
Personal life
Relationships
From late 1964 to 1979, Wilson married Marilyn Rovell, with whom he had a daughter Carnie and Wendy, who went on to their own musical success in the early 1990s as two-thirds of Wilson Phillips. In 1995, Wilson married Melinda Kae Ledbetter, a car saleswoman and former model he met in 1986. The couple was dated three years before Eugene Landy ended their relationship. The couple reconnected in 1992 and married in 1995. In 1999, Melinda also acted as Brian's manager, a job he said was "basically negotiating, and that's what I do every day when I sell cars." He also has six grandchildren.
Spirituality
In 1999, when asked if he was a religious man, Wilson replied: "I believe in Phil Spector," then clarified that when he had spiritual beliefs, he did not follow a particular religion, adding that he believed "music is God's voice.". When asked by the Guardian in 2004 if he believed in life after death, Wilson replied "I am not."
Mental health
Officially diagnosed as schizoaffective with mild manic depression, Wilson undergoes auditory hallucinations that appear on their own in the form of a bodyless voice. According to him, he began experiencing hallucinations in 1965, shortly after starting to use psychedelic drugs. In recent years, Wilson's mental condition has improved, though he still has auditory hallucinations over time. His relationship with his wife and his new psychiatric treatment regimen has enabled him to continue his career as a musician. In 1984, Wilson had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, with doctors finding evidence of brain damage caused by excessive and sustained drug abuse. The diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, originally made by Landy, was then withdrawn.
Wilson was very difficult to interview, rarely giving a long answer. According to the Salon author Peter Gilstrap: "He is also known to wake up, reach out and say silently 'Thank you!' long before the time set out, and sometimes he's just tired and dead, but none of this is due to bad attitudes. "He admits to having poor memories, and in interviews, sometimes lying to" test "people. David Oppenheim, who interviewed Wilson in 1966, recalls that "we tried to talk to him but did not know much about it, some said," He is not verbal. "It's strange and he looks more bizarre." In 2017, Charlotte Observer ' Theodon Janes suspects that while Wilson's past struggles with mental illness are widely documented, he's still "pretty good to write a book [I Am Brian Wilson]... and headline [a] a very ambitious concert tour, so maybe he was able to tell the people who worked for him that he was not ready for the interview , if he does not. "When asked about the negative comments written in the book, Love replied:" He is not responsible for his life, as I am mine, every movement is organized and many things he says, no recordings. also do not like to put too much pressure on him, because I know he has a lot of problems because of compassion, I do not respond to everything he says. "
Whether Wilson actually approved his semi-regular tour schedule since the 2000s is a topic of debate among fans. In 2011, after talking to some acquaintances
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