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Old 06-11-2025, 12:25 PM
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My best friend just sent me a wsp message telling me this. So sad.

Just saw a post from Mick.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AWvR7UknE/
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Old 06-11-2025, 03:35 PM
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Just found this nice photo.

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Lindsey has not posted about Brian sad new, but there's an old post with this picture (though it looks photoshoped in his instagram)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KkLkos3MJ/

It feels like yesterday when Brian Wilson and I wrote 'He Couldn’t Get His Poor Old Body to Move'. (73 weeks ago).

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Just found this nice photo.

Wow, that photo is so scary for many reasons. Some of those faces could easily star in a horror movie. Imagine those faces looking in your window some night.
I know that Dennis lived with Charles Manson but does he have to look like him too?
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Just found this nice photo.

I love this photo. Beautiful! I think I've seen it once or twice on FB.
Christine had said she and Carl hit it off really well.
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Old 06-12-2025, 05:47 PM
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Default Brian Wilson has passed away...

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Note from People, talking about the death of the legendary musician...
Personally, I don't know so much about The Beach Boys music, but I'm truly touched as Lindsey had an inspiration on the band for his own music, and he worked with Brian in the last years of the 80s...I know it was posted on the Rumours part, but I guess it could be included over here...

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Born on June 20, 1942 in Inglewood, Calif., Wilson was the eldest child among his siblings, including Dennis and Carl, who were born in 1944 and 1946, respectively. From an early age, he was said to have an aptitude for music, with two biographies — Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius and Wouldn't It Be Nice: Brian Wilson and the Making of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds — detailing his abilities with pitch and melody.

(...) When it comes to "Good Vibrations," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, Wilson told PEOPLE in 2018, "That was a very complex record."

He added, "We cut that in four studios. The verses at Gold Star, the bridge at Sunset Sound, the background music for the choruses at Western, and the vocals at Columbia. My brothers said, 'Brian, this is going to be a No. 1 record.' I said, 'I know!' "

(...) Despite the Beach Boys' soaring popularity and continued success on the charts, Wilson started to succumb to various mental instabilities brought on by depression over deafness in his right ear, an unofficial musical rivalry with the Beatles, the relentless nature of being on tour and what PEOPLE described later, in 1975, as "the excesses of the '60s," Wilson became a "victim of his own genius." Years later, after continued mental decline and increased self-destructive behavior, he went into reclusion after his father's death in June 1973.

In 1991, Wilson told PEOPLE his father's abuse and a "two-by-four [he hit him with] caused deafness in my right ear,'' adding that his ''childhood and adolescence were very sad times in my life, because I always had to turn my head to hear things, trying to imagine where those voices were coming from.''

With the help of psychologist Eugene Landy, Wilson eventually made a brief comeback in 1976, helping produce the album, The Beach Boys Love You, before falling back into another years-long depression fueled by drugs and alcohol.

(...) By the mid-1990s, Wilson embarked on a career resurgence, which saw him going back into the studio and performing onstage again. He released several solo albums during that time, including 2004's Brian Wilson Presents Smile, which was his version of the previously uncompleted Beach Boys' record.

In 2012, he released his 11th solo album, At My Piano, the same year the Beach Boys performed at the 54th annual Grammy Awards, capping off a successful 50th anniversary tour and celebrated release of the album, That's Why God Made the Radio.

"I feel good. I really do feel good these days," Wilson told PEOPLE, adding that "this whole year has been very emotional and — what do you call that word? — sentimental."

(...) Throughout his career, Wilson received a number of accolades. He earned nine Grammy Award nominations, collecting most of those early on with the Beach Boys. His two wins, however, were for his solo work in 2005 and 2013.

As a member of the Beach Boys, he was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. He was also recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007 and earned a Golden Globe nomination in 2016 for writing an original song featured on the soundtrack of the biopic, Love & Mercy, starring Paul Dano as Wilson.

Wilson's life and career was subsequently chronicled in the 2021 documentary, Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road.

(...) During all of this, Wilson was married twice, first to Marilyn Rovell, from 1964 to 1979, and then to Melinda Kae Ledbetter, whom he married in 1995. They were together until her death in January 2024.

A month later his family filed for a conservatorship in a Los Angeles court stating that he had a "major neurocognitive disorder (such as dementia)." They also noted that Wilson was “unable to properly provide for his... personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter.”


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I just watched again the Beach Boys documentary on Disney+. I'd already watched when it was released, I remember I have commented Lindsey's appearance here. The last scene with the band in Paradise Cove beach is very touching, even more so this week.

I think I've seen also the Long Promised Road doc, too. It's the one with Brian interviewed in car, isn't it? It's touching, too. Cause Brian's delicate mental state is evident.

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That pic with Christine is so amazing!!!!
It kinda reminds me of the behind the mask photo shoot

Christine looks so saucy
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That pic with Christine is so amazing!!!!
It kinda reminds me of the behind the mask photo shoot

Christine looks so saucy
I love it, too! She looks happy with these guys. It was here Tom Petty escape. haha
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I love it, too! She looks happy with these guys. It was here Tom Petty escape. haha

Explain that. I don't get it.
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Explain that. I don't get it.
Sorry for the typo. It was her "Tom Petty" escape.

Meaning, Dennis and crew, were what Tom and crew were, to Stevie.

She fled FM for a bit. Especially, after Bella.
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Sorry for the typo. It was her "Tom Petty" escape.

Meaning, Dennis and crew, were what Tom and crew were, to Stevie.

She fled FM for a bit. Especially, after Bella.
But then instead of running from FM, she got Lindsey fired then ran from FM again!! hahaha
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