Episode #248 | 9.2.25
Brian Wilson: Love and Mercy, Murder, Theft, and Manipulation
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In this episode
Brian Wilson was the quiet one. The genius in the bathrobe. The ghost at the piano bench. He wrote Pet Sounds, rewrote pop music history, and was nearly destroyed for it. This is the story of how mercy, murder, theft, and family fractured the mind behind the Beach Boys—and how Brian Wilson reclaimed his music, his story, and his soul.
Sources
I Am Brian Wilson, by Brian Wilson
Love and Mercy (2014, dir. Bill Pohlad)
Bad Vibrations Book Reveals The Gritty Details Of The Lives Of The Beach Boys (Spokesman)
Beach Boy Brian Wilson tells how he was tortured by his father in his new memoir (Daily Mail)
Inside the Ambitious Plan to Monetize the Beach Boys' Legacy (Rolling Stone)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Jake Brennan.
Scored and mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
Additional music and score elements by Ryan Spraker.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak