![]() ![]() ![]() To many musicians, the world is sounds, not stories feelings, not facts. The Beach Boy is, like so many rock stars, a rambling man. Greenman seems to have started Wilson on certain topics and then been happy to follow him down the meandering paths of his memory. Landy died in 2006, hence the release two years ago of the Wilson biopic Love and Mercy, in which he could serve as the villain, and now this second autobiography, ghosted by Ben Greenman and, one senses, guided by Wilson’s wife and manager, Melinda. ![]() In 1991, the power was wielded by Eugene Landy, the sinister psychotherapist who controlled Wilson’s life for most of the 1980s and in the early 1990s. The work in that case had been done by a ghostwriter, Todd Gold. ![]() When people took exception to some of its contents, Wilson confessed that he hadn’t read it. In 1991 he had his name on a book called Wouldn’t It Be Nice. This is actually the second time Wilson has told his extraordinary life story. According to the blurb accompanying I Am Brian Wilson, this is the book in which the co-founder of the Beach Boys “tells his extraordinary life story for the first time, in his own words”. ![]()
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