Brian Wilson. Goodbye to the Beach Boys soul
Few musicians run a studio like a spacecraft. Music is above all thought as a sound architecture, but there are those who recognize in it a transport force, or even the creation of environments, zones, worlds. At the head of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson looked like an exiled extraterrestrial on a strange planet, suffering from amnesia and unable to explore his condition through language other than music. It should not be possible to make successful as he did, bend the pop laws to the point of building such subtle, fanciful and free plots. And all hurt by a rare nostalgia as to a difficult place to glimpse. As if the music was herself the recovery of a childhood in another world. ‘Good Vibrations’ has not aged a second, is one of the great musical achievements of the twentieth century, and passed in all radios, proving the genius of that boy who transcended the relaxed gender of surfing to create complex harmonies and sound landscapes as intense and intense and intricate in studio. «Those ears he has. My God, He has to leave them in Testament to Smithsonian »exclaimed Bob Dylan to Newsweek In 1997. PET SOUTHS It is now regarded as a masterpiece, and one of the most influential albums ever, having inspired the Beatles. Wilson, who has all his life debated with serious mental health and drug dependence, died on Wednesday, June 11, at the age of 82.
The news was confirmed by the family on the musician’s official website. «We are speechless. Please respect our privacy at this time, because our family is in mourning. We are aware that we are sharing our pain with the world »read in the statement. The cause of death was not disclosed.
On social networks, the band also shared a statement. «The world is today mourning the death of a genius, and we are mourning the death of our cousin, friend and partner of the great adventure for music»the text begins. «Brian Wilson was not just the heart of The Beach Boys – it was the soul of our songs. The melodies he dreamed of and the emotion he put on each note changed the course of music forever. His parallel and unique spirit talent created the soundtrack of so many lives around the world, including ours »adds. «We will continue to value the timeless music we made together and the joy that brought to millions over the decades. And although we miss the lack of it, your legacy will live through your songs and in our memories ».
The American group was founded in the early 1960s in Hawthorne on the outskirts of Los Angeles by Wilson, along with his two brothers, Dennis and Carl-both deceased-his cousin Mike Love and his friend Al Jardine. Surfin ‘USAIn 1963, it was his first big hit, reaching the first position of the tables in Canada and the third in the US. But it was with PET SOUTHS (1966), who raised the unconditional admiration of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, that the sound of the Beach Boys has gained a new density and complexity. Then Wilson would eventually move away due to mental forum problems, partly due to LSD abuse. In December 1964, after a panic attack aboard a plane, he had already decided to stop participating in the band’s live concerts.
