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sunsoar25's review
3.0
I already knew part of this story from watching documentaries on the Beach Boys, but it was still very interesting to hear it directly from Brian Wilson (via Todd Gold).
Let's just say I'm kind of surprised he lived to tell the tale.
I would also be interested in reading from a perspective that's a bit more objective and from the present rather than 1991.
I prefered the first part of the book and I would probably have rated it higher if just grading it on that alone.
Let's just say I'm kind of surprised he lived to tell the tale.
I would also be interested in reading from a perspective that's a bit more objective and from the present rather than 1991.
I prefered the first part of the book and I would probably have rated it higher if just grading it on that alone.
matthewmurphy's review
1.0
Landy...you egotisical bastard, I've read your book!
This is not Brian Wilson. This is a hodge-podge of old interviews and articles on the history of the Beach Boys (psychological abuse and all) and then a name-dropping, self-praising testimony of the man who took a musical genius from one brink of destruction to another.
Brian even testified he had little to do with this book at all and that Landy was behind the whole thing and it shows. Brian has had a rough life and this book shows it, but there is no happiness shown in it until Landy appears like a savior and even then it makes you want to take psychotropic drugs just to ease the pain of reading how wonderful that swindling sack of crap was.
To be honest, I'm looking forward to Love & Mercy, the biopic on Brian Wilson because that is based more in reality than this book. My only disappoint is 24 years after this attempt, we still have yet to get an authorized definitive biography of one of the great musical minds of American pop music.
This is not Brian Wilson. This is a hodge-podge of old interviews and articles on the history of the Beach Boys (psychological abuse and all) and then a name-dropping, self-praising testimony of the man who took a musical genius from one brink of destruction to another.
Brian even testified he had little to do with this book at all and that Landy was behind the whole thing and it shows. Brian has had a rough life and this book shows it, but there is no happiness shown in it until Landy appears like a savior and even then it makes you want to take psychotropic drugs just to ease the pain of reading how wonderful that swindling sack of crap was.
To be honest, I'm looking forward to Love & Mercy, the biopic on Brian Wilson because that is based more in reality than this book. My only disappoint is 24 years after this attempt, we still have yet to get an authorized definitive biography of one of the great musical minds of American pop music.
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