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Brian Wilson’s family announced that he died today.\u00a0 No cause of death was given. Mr. Wilson was 82.<\/p>\n
Brian Wilson’s musical aptitude was noted by his family when he was still a baby.\u00a0 In high school, Brian was a three sport athlete (football, baseball and cross country).\u00a0 After school he obsessively played piano.\u00a0 Brian would listen to records, deconstruct the songs and recreate the harmonies.\u00a0 In 1961, Brian wrote what would become The Beach Boys first song, Surfer Girl<\/em>.\u00a0 The Beach Boys consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl, plus their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine.<\/p>\n In 1962, Capitol Records signed The Beach Boys.\u00a0 In January 1963, the band had their first top ten single Surfin’ U.S.A.<\/em>.\u00a0 In May 1964, their first #1 single I Get Around<\/em> topped the charts.\u00a0 The pressure of writing, producing and traveling to perform at live concerts took a toll on Mr. Wilson. Glen Campbell replaced Brian Wilson for some of the December tour dates. In January 1965, Brian Wilson announced he was withdrawing from touring.\u00a0 He wanted to become a full-time studio musician so he could focus on taking The Beach Boys’ music to another level.<\/p>\n Brian Wilson continued to write, produce and perform on Beach Boys albums, but with them touring and him in the studio, their comradery was strained.\u00a0 The Beach Boys released over two dozen albums with Brian Wilson as a key member.\u00a0 Brian Wilson also released 12 solo studio albums, three solo live albums, one compilation album under his name, plus many Beach Boys compilation albums that feature Brian Wilson.<\/p>\n Some of Brian Wilson’s most popular songs include: I Get Around\u00a0<\/em>(#1); Help Me, Rhonda<\/em> (#1); Good Vibrations<\/em> (#1); California Girls<\/em> (#3); Surfin’ U.S.A.<\/em> (#3); Wouldn’t It Be Nice <\/em>(#8); Fun, Fun, Fun<\/em> (#5); Surfin\u2019 Safari<\/em> (#14); In My Room<\/em> (23); Little Saint Nick<\/em> (#3); Don’t Worry Baby<\/em> (#24 as a B side) and God Only Knows<\/em> (#39 as a B-side).<\/p>\n I don’t remember the first song that I heard by Brian Wilson.\u00a0 My uncle had several (all?) of their albums.\u00a0 My favorites of his songs are Wouldn’t It Be Nice <\/em>and Don’t Worry Baby.<\/em><\/p>\n Brian Wilson was a musical genius.\u00a0 One of my favorite quotes about Brian Wilson is that the Beatles weren’t overly impressed by many contemporary artists, but Brian Wilson was one of them.<\/p>\n Out thoughts and prayers go out to Brian Wilson’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brian Wilson’s family announced that he died today.\u00a0 No cause of death was given. Mr. Wilson was 82. Brian Wilson’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,64,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-music","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39089,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39088\/revisions\/39089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}