Beach Boy's founder Brian Wilson:
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".[2]
In the mid-1960s, Wilson used his
increasingly creative ambitions to compose and produce Pet Sounds,
considered one of the greatest albums of all time. 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 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, including 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.
In 2008, Rolling Stone magazine published a list
of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and ranked Wilson number
52.[3] 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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