15 Essential Brian Wilson Deep Cuts

Brian Wilson spent most of his life revered as one of the great songwriters of the rock’n’roll era, a reputation built primarily on the songs he wrote and recorded with the Beach Boys in the 1960s. Wilson emerged during the glory days of the record business, a time when the composition was inseparable from the recording. He played a crucial role in developing the distinction between a record and song. As the sonic architect for the Beach Boys, he composed the melodies, arranged the vocal ...

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