Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin | CD review

(EMI)Well, one can see why it happened. After all, Rod Stewart has had enormous success with his Great American Songbook albums of covers of pre-rock classics. And Brian Wilson, with his symphonic leanings and a melodic sense derived as much from Broadway as Chuck Berry, is arguably the rock writer with the closest ties to George Gershwin. But, goodness, what a horrible album this is. In its best moments Gershwin's songs are reconfigured into pastiches of past Wilson classics – They Can't Tak...

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