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Brian Wilson - "God only knows what I’d be without you"

Brian Wilson, vocals, piano

Brian Wilson's most popular CDs and DVDs: SMILE, Imagination, Gettin' In Over My Head, Pet Sounds

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Set list:

Wonderful 2:20
Our Prayer/Gee 1:58
Heroes and Villians 4:47
Medley (God Only Knows, California Girls, Good Vibrations) 3:20

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	SMILE
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Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942, in Hawthorne, California) is an American pop musician, best known as a founding member of and the main producer, composer, and arranger for The Beach Boys. Although changing fashions in music sometimes rendered Wilson's earlier work unfashionable, his reputation has since been restored and Brian Wilson is now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant popular music composers of the 20th century.

Brian Wilson showed an early talent for music and quickly developed into a highly skilled singer, songwriter, arranger and musician under the tutelege of his father, Murry Wilson. After forming The Beach Boys in the early sixties with his brothers Carl and Dennis, his cousin Mike Love and schoolfriend Al Jardine, Brian Wilson steered the group to huge success around the world, and the Beach Boys scored a string of international hits between 1962 and 1966, including pop classics such as "Surfin' USA", "Fun, Fun, Fun", "I Get Around", "Help Me Rhonda", "California Girls", and "Good Vibrations". Until 1967, the Beach Boys international success and popularity put them on a level that put them amoung the worlds biggest acts of the time, such as The Beatles, who later cited Brian Wilson's work as a major influence.

Brian Wilson's creativity reached its apex during the mid-1960s with the Pet Sounds album (which, according to Paul McCartney, was an inspiration for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), and many critics and music polls have named it one of the greatest pop albums ever recorded.

This was immediately followed by the Beach Boys biggest chart success, the million-selling #1 hit single "Good Vibrations", which set new standards for pop-rock production and is still regarded as one of the seminal pop recordings of the era. Wilson then began work on a new album, originally called "Dumb Angel" but soon re-titled SMiLE, on which he collaborated with lyricist Van Dyke Parks. However, the combination of resistance from within the Beach Boys and Wilson's own growing personal problems led to the cancellation of the project in mid-1967.

Brian Wilson also was the owner of a health food shop in Hollywood that lasted a year from its founding in the summer of 1969, the "Radiant Radish". Following a breakdown Wilson descended into mental illness and drug abuse in the late Sixties and 1970s. He partially recovered to try a career as a solo artist in the 1980s, with limited success. His efforts were both encouraged and hampered by the influence of his psychologist, Dr. Eugene Landy, and partially due to Landy's extreme control over Brian's life, Wilson quit working with the Beach Boys on a regular basis after the release of The Beach Boys in 1985. Landy's illegal use of psychotropic drugs on Wilson and his interference in all of his affairs was finally legally ended by Brian's brother Carl. Brian Wilson's final release as part of the group was on the 1996 album Stars and Stripes Vol. 1, a group collaboration with select country music artists singing the lead vocals.

Wilson released a solo album, Brian Wilson, in 1988 and a memoir, "Wouldn't It Be Nice - My Own Story", in which he spoke for the first time about his troubled relationship with his abusive father Murry and his "lost years" of mental illness. The book makes for shocking reading, featuring some particularly gruesome details. Understandably, the book was taken out of press some years later. It is widely appreciated that although it was written following interviews with Brian Wilson and others, Eugene Landy was largely responsible for the book, in conjunction with the writer Todd Gold.

Brian Wilson married Melinda Ledbetter in 1995 and subsequently the couple adopted two girls, Daria and Delanie, and, in 2004, a son, Dylan. He has two daughters, Carnie Wilson and Wendy Wilson, from his first marriage.

After considerable mental recovery, Wilson released a second solo album, Imagination, in 1998 to some appreciation. Following this, he learned to cope with his stage fright and started to play live for the first time in decades, to great success, going on to play the whole Pet Sounds album live on his tours of the USA, UK and Europe. Brian Wilson now tours regularly as a solo act with a large backing band that includes the members of The Wondermints and former Beach Boys guitarist Jeff Foskett.

A new studio album, Gettin' In Over My Head, featuring collaborations with Elton John, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, and his deceased brother Carl Wilson. It was released on 22 June, 2004. Eric Clapton played on the track "City Blues."

On 28 September 2004, a re-recorded version of his previously shelved SMiLE album was released. The album had reached mythic proportions within Beach Boys fandom, and the 1966/1967 sessions had been heavily bootlegged. The 2004 recording featured Wilson's touring band which consists of former Beach Boys guitarist Jeff Foskett and members of The Wondermints on vocals and instruments, and is classed as a Brian Wilson solo album. Notably, the song "Good Vibrations" featured Tony Asher's original lyrics rather than Mike Love's revised lyrics from the 1966 single version of the song. The album was both a critical and a financial success.

Wilson won a Grammy award for best rock instrumental for the "SMiLE" track "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow (Fire)." He released a two-DVD "Smile" set, consisting of a documentary and a live presentation of the work. He planned a tour for the second half of 2005, as well as a Christmas album for Arista Records, called What I Really Want For Christmas.

Though no longer a part of The Beach Boys touring band, Brian Wilson remains a member of the Beach Boys Corp.

Canadian rock group Barenaked Ladies paid tribute to the Beach Boy in their hit song "Brian Wilson," which makes reference to his mental illness and Dr. Landy. In a weird twist, Brian Wilson actually covered this song for a live album. John Cale had also paid tribute to Wilson in his song "Mr. Wilson", as did Roland Orzabal in "Brian Wilson Said" from Tears For Fears' 1994 album "Elemental".

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