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Paul Dano: ‘Nobody needs to know about my high-school band!’ ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The actor on singing with Brian Wilson, why War and Peace is the best book ever written and what drew him to his latest film, The Wizard of the Kremlin
You were wonderful as Brian Wilson in Love & Mer…
Post your questions for Paul Dano ⊕
The actor will join us to talk about his busy career on both sides of the camera on films from Love & Mercy to There Will Be Blood. But will we hear from Quentin Tarantino?
Roll up, roll up: who will …
5 months ago
The Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove review – box set of lost 70s music has all of Brian Wilson’s turmoil and talent ⊕
(Capitol)
Spanning 1974-77, this collection shows Wilson was capable of stunning pre-rock’n’roll homage – on the previously unheard Adult/Child – while also writing wayward songs about organic food
We …
9 months ago
Beach Boys singer Mike Love breaks down in tears over emotional tribute to late Brian Wilson saying 'he's in our hearts' ⊕
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Wilson, who wrote many of The Beach Boys hit songs, passed away in June in Beverly Hills at the age of 82. His passing was a shock to millions of the band's fans.
12 months ago
Brian Wilson's cause of death revealed days after Beach Boys icon's shock passing aged 82 ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Beach Boys icon Brian Wilson's cause of death has been revealed publicly two weeks after his passing at 82.
13 months ago
‘His music documented an America that no longer exists’: Brian Wilson’s brilliance, by key collaborator Van Dyke Parks ○
Wilson bought Parks a Volvo when he’d barely met him – and together they brought sublime poetry to pop. He remembers the making of Smile, Surf’s Up and more
It was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor …
Brian Wilson was a musical genius. Are there any left? ○
In pop, which equates genius with innovation, recent artists have not pioneered new forms like those from the 60s. Has the digital age sidelined invention and promoted the derivative for ever?
By all …
Brian Wilson was a musical genius: are there any left? ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
In pop, which equates genius with innovation, recent artists have not pioneered new forms like those from the 60s. Has the digital age sidelined invention and promoted the derivative for ever?
By all …
‘I yearned to be a California Girl – but I lived in Burnley’: readers on their love for Brian Wilson ○
From memories of photoshoots and telephone calls with the late Beach Boy, to appraisals of his complex but pure music, Guardian readers pay tribute to a great
Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson…