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Brian Wilson News

Brian Wilson, Jeff Beck to host Rock'N'Roll Fantasy Camp

Happy campers will receive songwriting and performance tips

  • Feb 28, 2013

Brian Wilson will not join The Beach Boys on their 2012 world tour

Brian Wilson is busy with his upcoming Disney cover album release

  • Sep 30, 2011

Brian Wilson: "LSD fucked with my brain"

Beach Boys frontman tells of voices "saying derogatory things"

  • Jun 25, 2011

Brian Wilson to play Beach Boys classics on UK tour – ticket details

Wilson is also bringing his '…Reimagines Gershwin' album across the Atlantic

  • Nov 10, 2010

Brian Wilson asked to finish incomplete George Gershwin compositions

'He had a gift for melody that nobody has ever equalled,' Wilson says of Gershwin

  • Oct 8, 2009

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Brian Wilson Music Videos

Southern California (Live at the AOL Studios) Play Video

Southern California (Live at the AOL Studios)

Official music video for the track Southern California (Live at the AOL Studios) by Brian Wilson.

Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl (Live at the AOL Studios) Play Video

Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl (Live at the AOL Studios)

Official music video for the track Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl (Live at the AOL Studios) by Brian Wilson.

Can't Wait Too Long/Midnight's Another Day (Medley) (Live at the AOL Studios) Play Video

Can't Wait Too Long/Midnight's Another Day (Medley) (Live at the AOL Studios)

Official music video for the track Can't Wait Too Long/Midnight's Another Day (Medley) (Live at the AOL Studios) by Brian Wilson.

Going Home (Live at the AOL Studios) Play Video

Going Home (Live at the AOL Studios)

Official music video for the track Going Home (Live at the AOL Studios) by Brian Wilson.

Morning Beat (Live at the AOL Studios) Play Video

Morning Beat (Live at the AOL Studios)

Official music video for the track Morning Beat (Live at the AOL Studios) by Brian Wilson.

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Brian Wilson Reviews

Album Review: Brian Wilson - 'In the Key Of Disney'

Album Review: Brian Wilson - 'In the Key Of Disney'

A joyful Wilson performs Disney's finest

  • Oct 21, 2011

Wilson, Brian : London Royal Festival Hall

...sensational...

  • Mar 11, 2004

Wilson, Brian : London Royal Festival Hall

Tonight, he opened his heart and let all the good vibrations come out...

  • Feb 12, 2002

New York Wantagh Jones Beach Amphitheatre

[b]Wilson[/b] knows the audience is riveted by the presence of a living icon and runs with it...

  • Sep 13, 2000

New York Jones Beach Amphitheatre

[b]Wilson[/b] knows the audience is riveted by the presence of a living icon and runs with it...

  • Sep 13, 2000

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Brian Wilson Biography

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician and the leader, lead vocalist, bassist and chief songwriter of the Beach Boys. Besides being their primary composer, he also functioned as the band's main producer and arranger. After signing with Capitol Records in mid-1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the Beach Boys.

In the mid-1960s, Wilson used his increasingly creative ambitions to compose and produce Pet Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums of all time. The intended follow up to Pet Sounds, Smile, was cancelled for various reasons, including Wilson's deteriorating mental health. Wilson's contributions to the Beach Boys diminished and his erratic behavior led to tensions with the band. After years of treatment and recuperation, he began a solo career in 1988 with Brian Wilson, the same year that he and the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Since then, he has toured for the first time in decades with a new band and released acclaimed albums, including a reworked version of Smile in 2004, for which Wilson won his first Grammy Award for "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Fire)" as Best Rock Instrumental.

In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine published a list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" that ranked Wilson number 52. He is an occasional actor and voice actor, having appeared in television shows, films, and other artists' music videos. On December 16, 2011, a 50th Anniversary Reunion was announced and Brian briefly returned to the Beach Boys. Brian Wilson remains a member of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Incorporated.

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