The Beach Boys poison-pen letter

A recently discovered letter written by Brian Wilson's father sheds more troubling light on their relationshipMurry Wilson was in the habit of beating his children. We know that from his oldest son Brian's autobiography, Wouldn't It Be Nice, published in 1991, in which the chief Beach Boy – then deep in therapy – detailed the painful humiliations to which he had been subjected in his youth. But now, out there on the internet, is a hitherto unknown and quite startling document that ...

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