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Brian Wilson News

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

Brian Wilson is busy with his upcoming Disney cover album release

Brian Wilson: "LSD fucked with my brain"

Beach Boys frontman tells of voices "saying derogatory things"

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

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

Brian Wilson asked to finish incomplete George Gershwin compositions

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

Beach Boys' Brian Wilson plays mammoth 'Greatest Hits' show in London

Legend plays songs spanning his entire career

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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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YouTube Brian Wilson Videos

Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson (Video) Play Video

Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson (Video)

© 2006 WMG Brian Wilson (Video)

Dynamite(With Me and The SF Giants' Brian Wilson, Cody Ross & Mascot Lou Seal Play Video

Dynamite(With Me and The SF Giants' Brian Wilson, Cody Ross & Mascot Lou Seal

Watch Me Perform Tiao Cruz's "Dynamite" With the SF Giants' Brian Wilson, Cody Ross and Mascot Lou Seal. NEW CLOTHING LINE: www.justloveapparel.com FOLLOW ME ON KEEK (NEW VIDEO MESSAGING SITE) www.keek.com NEW IPHONE...

Brian Wilson - California Girls Live at the Roxy Play Video

Brian Wilson - California Girls Live at the Roxy

From the DVD 'Brian Wilson On Tour', Brian delivers a stellar performance here, interestingly featuring drummer Todd Sucherman, and not the usual Jim Hines.

2012 NAMM: Brian Wilson Play Video

2012 NAMM: Brian Wilson

www.vintagerock.com - Brian Wilson makes an appearance at the NAMM Media Preview Day to receive the Musician for Life Award, January 18, 2012, Anaheim, CA. Filmed and edited by Alex Jacard.

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Brian Wilson Biography

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. On stage, Wilson provided many of the lead vocals, and often harmonized with the group in falsetto. Early during his on-stage career, Wilson primarily played bass on stage, but gradually transitioned to primarily playing piano/keyboards. Besides being the primary composer in The Beach Boys, 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 including "Surfin' Safari", "Surfin' USA", "Shut Down", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Be True to Your School", "In My Room", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "I Get Around", "Dance Dance Dance", "Help Me Rhonda", "California Girls" and "Good Vibrations". These songs and their accompanying albums were internationally popular, making The Beach Boys one of the biggest acts of their time.

In the mid-60s Wilson used his increasingly creative ambitions to compose and produce Pet Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums of all time. At this point his music was considered to rival that of Lennon-McCartney. 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 as the years went by, 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 such as a reworked version of Smile in 2004, for which Wilson won a Grammy Award for "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Fire)" as Best Rock Instrumental, That Lucky Old Sun, and Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin.

In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine published a list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and 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 returned to The Beach Boys. Brian Wilson remains a member of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Incorporated.

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Brian Wilson Lyrics

Brian Wilson - Heroes And Villains Lyrics

I've been in this town so long that back in the city
I've been taken for lost and gone
And unknown for a long, long time

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Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations Lyrics

I, I love the colorful clothes she wears
And she's already workin' on my brain
I, I only look in her eyes
But I picked up somethin' I just can't explain

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Brian Wilson - Surf's Up Lyrics

A diamond necklace played the pawn
Hand in hand some drummed along, oh
To a handsome man and baton
(Michael, Michael)

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Brian Wilson - Roll Plymouth Rock Lyrics

Wavin' from the ocean liner
The native Indians behind that

Rock, rock, roll

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Brian Wilson - A Friend Like You Lyrics

As I look back at my life
As I move on through the year
Every time I reminisce
One thing rings out loud and clear

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Brian Wilson - Song For Children Lyrics

One, maybe not one
Maybe you too
Are wonderin'
Wonderin' who

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Brian Wilson - Let It Shine Lyrics

Let it shine, oh, let it shine
Let it shine, oh, let it shine
Let it shine, oh, let it shine
Let it shine, oh, let it shine

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