![]() ![]() Thats part of what makes Brian Wilsons story so astonishing. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books. Thor Christensen is a Dallas writer and critic. They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of. Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. For a tale filled with so much pain, tragedy and dysfunction, the Beach Boys' saga is ultimately the story of five California kids who dared to think differently - and wound up changing pop music in the process. Pieced together through a series of interviews he gave to New York journalist Ben Greenman, the autobiography is a choppy work weighed down by random thoughts, trivial memories and confusing time-shifts.īut when Wilson opens up about creating the group's early pop masterpieces or the groundbreaking Pet Sounds, I Am Brian Wilson finally shines. While he's happily remarried and he still performs and makes albums, his memory is a wreck - a fact he admits to time and again in his memoir. ![]() The greatest achievement of Love & Mercy, he writes, was "the idea that mental illness should be handled in a humane and straightforward way. "There were times when I felt it was shameful and I couldn't be honest about the things I was thinking and the voices I was hearing," Wilson writes. ![]()
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