This really is an extraordinary book, as Brian’s memories drift across the years, in whatever order they enter his head, and he revisits old friends, gigs, songs and associates, both good and bad. As he sits quietly, Brian reminisces on the many events, people and experiences he has known that brought him to this evening’s show.
The year is 2013, on a grey London evening, and Brian Wilson is sitting alone in the auditorium of the Royal Festival Hall, enjoying a quiet moment to himself before the doors are opened to the public, and the evenings performance gets under way.
Whether he's talking about his childhood, his bandmates, or his own inner demons, Wilson's story, told in his own voice and in his own way, unforgettably illuminates the man behind the music, working through the turbulence and discord to achieve, at last, a new harmony. Today Brian Wilson is older, calmer, filled with perspective and forgiveness. I Am Brian Wilson reveals as never before the man who fought his way back to stability and creative relevance, who became a mesmerizing live artist, who forced himself to reckon with his own complex legacy and completed 'Smile', the legendary unfinished Beach Boys record that had become synonymous with both his genius and its destabilization. Now, for the first time, he weighs in on the sources of his creative inspiration and on his struggles, the exhilarating highs and the debilitating lows. With intricate harmonies, symphonic structures, and wide-eyed lyrics that explored life's most transcendent joys and deepest sorrows, songs like 'In My Room', 'God Only Knows' and 'Good Vibrations' forever expanded the possibilities of pop songwriting.ĭerailed in the 1970s by mental illness, drug use, and the shifting fortunes of the band, Wilson came back again and again over the next few decades, surviving and - finally - thriving. As cofounder of the Beach Boys in the 1960s, Wilson created some of the most groundbreaking and timeless popular music ever recorded. That's part of what makes Brian Wilson's story so astonishing. They say there are no second acts in American lives, and third acts are almost unheard of.
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