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From the Album
1. This Beautiful Day
2. Runaway Dancer
3. What Ever Happened
4. On The Island
5. Half Moon Bay
6. Our Special Love
7. The Right Time
8. Guess You Had To Be There
9. Dont Worry
10. Somewhere Quiet
11. Im Feeling Sad
12. Tell Me Why
13. Sail Away
14. One Kind Of Love
15. Saturday Night
16. The Last Song
From the Album
1. Youve Got A Friend In Me
2. The Bare Necessities
3. Baby Mine
4. Kiss The Girl
5. Colors Of The Wind
6. Can You Feel The Love Tonight
7. We Belong Together
8. I Just Cant Wait To Be King
9. Stay Awake
10. Heigh-Ho
11. Whistle While You Work
12. Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life For Me)
13. When You Wish Upon A Star
14. A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes
From the Album
1. Rhapsody In Blue (Intro)
2. The Like In I Love You
3. Summertime
4. I Loves You Porgy
5. I Got Plenty O Nuttin
6. It Aint Necessarily So
7. S Wonderful
8. They Cant Take That Away From Me
9. Love Is Here To Stay
10. Ive Got A Crush On You
11. I Got Rhythm
12. Someone To Watch Over Me
13. Rhapsody In Blue (Reprise)
From the Album
1. That Lucky Old Sun
2. Morning Beat
3. Room With A View
4. Good Kind Of Love
5. Forever My Surfer Girl
6. Venice Beach
7. Live Let Live
8. Mexican Girl
9. Cinco De Mayo
10. California Role
11. Between Pictures
12. Oxygen To The Brain
13. Been Too Long
14. Midnights Another Day
15. Lucky Old Sun Reprise
16. Goin Home
17. Southern California
From the Album
1. How Could We Still Be Dancin
2. Soul Searchin
3. Youve Touched Me
4. Gettin In Over My Head
5. City Blues
6. Desert Drive
7. A Friend Like You
8. Make A Wish
9. Rainbow Eyes
10. Saturday Morning In The City
11. Fairy Tale
12. Dont Let Her Know Shes An Angel
13. The Waltz
From the Album
1. Our Prayer / Gee
2. Heroes And Villains
3. Roll Plymouth Rock
4. Barnyard
5. Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine
6. Cabin Essence
7. Wonderful
8. Song For Children
9. Child Is Father Of The Man
10. Surfs Up
11. Im In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop
12. Vega-Tables
13. On A Holiday
14. Wind Chimes
15. Mrs. OLearys Cow
16. In Blue Hawaii
17. Good Vibrations
From the Album
1. Show Intro
2. Wouldnt It Be Nice
3. You Still Believe In Me
4. Thats Not Me
5. Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
6. Im Waiting For The Day
7. Lets Go Away For Awhile
8. Sloop John B
9. God Only Knows
10. I Know Theres An Answer
11. Here Today
12. I Just Wasnt Made For These Times
13. Pet Sounds
14. Caroline No
From the Album
1. Love And Mercy
4. Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long
6. One For The Boys
9. Let It Shine
10. Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
12. He Couldnt Get His Poor Old Body To Move
13. There's So Many
14. Walkin The Line
15. Melt Away
16. Night Time
17. Little Children
18. Rio Grande
From the Album
1. Little Girl Intro
2. The Little Girl I Once Knew
3. This Whole World
4. Dont Worry Baby
5. Kiss Me Baby
6. Do It Again
7. California Girls
8. I Get Around
9. Back Home
10. In My Room
11. Surfer Girl
12. The First Time
13. This Isnt Love
14. Add Some Music To Your Day
15. Please Let Me Wonder
16. Band Intro
17. Brian Wilson
18. Til I Die
19. Darlin
20. Lets Go Away For Awhile
21. Pet Sounds
22. God Only Knows
23. Lay Down Burden
24. Be My Baby
25. Good Vibrations
26. Caroline No
27. All Summer Long
28. Love And Mercy
From the Album
1. Your Imagination
2. She Says That She Needs Me
3. South American
4. Where Has Love Been?
5. Keep An Eye On Summer
6. Dream Angel
7. Cry
8. Lay Down Burden
9. Let Him Run Wild
10. Sunshine
11. Happy Days
From the Album
1. Meant For You
2. This Whole World
3. Caroline No
4. Let The Wind Blow
5. Love And Mercy
6. Do It Again
7. The Warmth Of The Sun
8. Wonderful
9. Still I Dream Of It
10. Melt Away
11. Til I Die
From the Album
1. Orange Crate Art
2. Sail Away
3. My Hobo Heart
4. Wings Of A Dove
5. Palm Tree And Moon
6. Summer In Monterey
7. San Francisco
8. Hold Back Time
9. My Jeanine
10. Movies Is Magic
11. This Town Goes Down At Sunset
12. Lullabye
From the Album
1. Intro
2. Someone To Love
3. Water Builds Up
4. Dont Let Her Know Shes An Angel
5. Do You Have Any Regrets?
6. Brian
7. Hotter
8. Spirit Of Rock n Roll
9. Rainbow Eyes
10. Love Ya
11. Make A Wish
12. Smart Girls
13. Country Feelin
14. Lets Stick Together
15. Concert Tonite
16. Save The Day
17. Lets Do It Again
From the Album
1. Love And Mercy
2. Walkin The Line
3. Melt Away
4. Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long
5. Little Children
6. One For The Boys
7. There's So Many
8. Night Time
9. Let It Shine
10. Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
11. Rio Grande
Other Songs
Auld Lang Syne
Being With The One You Love
Brian Wilson On The Source
California Role/That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
Christmasey
Deck the Halls
Deep Purple
Do You Want To Dance?
Dont Talk
First Noel
First Rock And Roll Dance
First Time
Forever
Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Going Home
Goodnight Irene
Guess I'm Dumb
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
He Couldn't Get His Poor Body To Move
Heigh-Ho/Whistle While You Work/Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)
Heroes and Villians
Honeycomb
I'm Broke
Im In Great Shape / I Wanna Be Around / Workshop
I'm in Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
I'm So Young
Imagination
In The Back Of My Mind
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
It's a Blue World
It's O.K.
Joy to the World
Joy to the World [Bonus Track]
Lets Go To Heaven In My Car
Listen To Me
Little Girl I Once Knew
Little Honda
Little Saint Nick
Live Let Live/That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
Long Promised Road
Love & Mercy
Nothing But Love
Old Master Painter / You Are My Sunshine
Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine
Our Prayer / Gee
Our Prayer/Gee
Rhapsody In Blue
Ride the Wild Surf
Right Where I Belong
Roll-Around Heaven Reprise
Side Two
Sidewalk Surfin'
Silent Night
Surfin' USA
That Lucky Old Sun (Reprise)
The First Noel
The Man with All the Toys
The Monkey's Uncle
The Night Was so Young
The Wanderer
Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
There's No Other (Like My Baby)
This Song Wants To Sleep With You Tonight
Too Much Sugar
Wanderlust
What I Really Want for Christmas
What Love Can Do
Whatever Happened
Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Yo Ho
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 - c. June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often called a genius for his novel approaches to pop composition and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century. His best-known work is distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. Wilson was also known for his versatile vocal range. He faced lifelong struggles with mental illness.
Wilson's formative influences included George Gershwin, the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. In 1961, he began his professional career as a member of the Beach Boys, serving as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, he became the first pop musician credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. He also produced acts such as the Honeys and American Spring. By the mid-1960s he had written or co-written more than two dozen U.S. Top 40 hits, including the number-ones "Surf City" (1963), "I Get Around" (1964), "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966). He is considered among the first music producer auteurs and the first rock producers to apply the studio as an instrument.
In 1964, Wilson had a nervous breakdown and resigned from regular concert touring to focus on songwriting and production. This led to works such as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and his first credited solo release, "Caroline, No" (both 1966), as well as the unfinished album Smile. By the late 1960s, his productivity and mental health had significantly declined, leading to periods marked by reclusion, overeating, and substance abuse. His first professional comeback yielded the almost solo effort The Beach Boys Love You (1977). In the 1980s, he formed a controversial creative and business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, and relaunched his solo career with the self-titled album Brian Wilson (1988). Wilson disassociated from Landy in 1991 and toured regularly as a solo artist from 1999 to 2022.
Heralding popular music's recognition as an art form, Wilson's accomplishments as a producer helped initiate an era of unprecedented creative autonomy for label-signed acts. He is regarded as an important figure to many music genres and movements, including the California sound, art pop, psychedelia, chamber pop, progressive music, punk, outsider, and sunshine pop. Since the 1980s, his influence has extended to styles such as post-punk, indie rock, emo, dream pop, Shibuya-kei, and chillwave. He received numerous industry awards including two Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. His life and career were dramatised in the 2014 biopic Love and Mercy.
-Wikipedia
Birth Name: Brian Douglas WilsonWilson's formative influences included George Gershwin, the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. In 1961, he began his professional career as a member of the Beach Boys, serving as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, he became the first pop musician credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. He also produced acts such as the Honeys and American Spring. By the mid-1960s he had written or co-written more than two dozen U.S. Top 40 hits, including the number-ones "Surf City" (1963), "I Get Around" (1964), "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966). He is considered among the first music producer auteurs and the first rock producers to apply the studio as an instrument.
In 1964, Wilson had a nervous breakdown and resigned from regular concert touring to focus on songwriting and production. This led to works such as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and his first credited solo release, "Caroline, No" (both 1966), as well as the unfinished album Smile. By the late 1960s, his productivity and mental health had significantly declined, leading to periods marked by reclusion, overeating, and substance abuse. His first professional comeback yielded the almost solo effort The Beach Boys Love You (1977). In the 1980s, he formed a controversial creative and business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, and relaunched his solo career with the self-titled album Brian Wilson (1988). Wilson disassociated from Landy in 1991 and toured regularly as a solo artist from 1999 to 2022.
Heralding popular music's recognition as an art form, Wilson's accomplishments as a producer helped initiate an era of unprecedented creative autonomy for label-signed acts. He is regarded as an important figure to many music genres and movements, including the California sound, art pop, psychedelia, chamber pop, progressive music, punk, outsider, and sunshine pop. Since the 1980s, his influence has extended to styles such as post-punk, indie rock, emo, dream pop, Shibuya-kei, and chillwave. He received numerous industry awards including two Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. His life and career were dramatised in the 2014 biopic Love and Mercy.
-Wikipedia
Born: June 20, 1942 Inglewood, California, U.S.
Died: June 11, 2025 (at age of 82)
From: Hawthorne, California, U.S.
Parents: Murry Wilson
Spouse(s): Marilyn Rovell (m. 1964; div. 1979)
Melinda Ledbetter (m. 1995; died 2024)
Children: 7, including Carnie, Wendy
Genre(s): Rock, pop
Instrument(s): Vocals, keyboards, bass
Occupation(s): Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer
Active From: 1961-2022
Associated Acts: The Beach Boys, The Survivors
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