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I Am Brian Wilson
I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir | Brian Wilson
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My life has been written about over and over again, and thats mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes theyll get it right and sometimes theyll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I dont like discussing them. Sometimes I dont even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of that pain has changed. Sometimes memories come back to me when I least expect them. Maybe thats the only way it works when youve lived the life Ive lived: starting a band with my brothers that was managed by my father, watching my father become difficult and then impossible, watching myself become difficult and then impossible, watching women I loved come and go, watching children come into the world, watching my brothers get older, watching them pass out of the world. Some of those things shaped me. Others scarred me. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. When I watched my father fly into a rage and take swings at me and my brothers, was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow frustrated with his day job and take solace in music, was that shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I cant get to them all at once. Ive had a whole lifetime to take them in. Now I have a whole book to put them out there. Excerpt from I Am Brian Wilson
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psalva
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I‘m glad I finally read this. It‘s been sitting unread on my shelf for too long. Wilson‘s honesty in here is refreshing. The ways he deals with mental illness and how he struggled so long was hard to read about, but so relatable. Also, I love how passionate he is about his music. I always get a sense of his childlike joy when I hear him talk and that holds true for this memoir as well. Overall, a solid memoir by a lovable American classic.

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psalva
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My internet has been out today, preventing me from watching the new Sandman series. However, this has forced me to break my reading slump. I‘m only through the first chapter of this memoir, yet already enjoying it thoroughly.

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dariazeoli
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Happy 75th Birthday to Brian Wilson. Thank you for giving the world my favorite song, "God Only Knows." ??

It's pretty amazing that Brian Wilson & Paul McCartney were born within a couple days of one another. That was a damned good week!

Megabooks 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
Billypar That's my favorite one too. I never even heard it before the show Big Love. 8y
Georgette73 Agreed! 7y
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Brendaough Got Brian to sign my copy at his concert in Calgary Canada. 7y
dariazeoli @Brendaough Very Cool! How was he? It seems like touring and meeting people is sometimes difficult for him. 7y
Brendaough Brian looked very good....he‘s been through so much in his life. His singing voice is not quite what it used to be but it‘s Brian Wilson and God Only Knows sounded pretty good to me! 7y
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10 times out of 10, I'd pick Brian Wilson over Mike Love. It irks me that The Beach Boys name is licensed to that pompous jerk. His memoir solidified my opinion of him.

#rockinmay #funfunfun

Cinfhen Mike who??? I'm #TeamBrian all the way!!! 8y
Georgette73 Brian Wilson rules! 7y
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Brendaough
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MrBook
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This is another #memoir you may want to gift for the holidays. The memoir that the music-loving public has waited decades for, that of Beach Boys' brain& heart, Brian Wilson. This is equivalent to Elvis or John Lennon or Michael Jackson publishing their own memoirs. What an up-&-down life this musical genius had! Can' wait to read this one 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!! Our library has a lot of Beach Boys fans 😆. #TBRtemptation #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Carissa-Green-Reads He was interviewed on Weekend Edition when this was newly released this fall, and it made me very sad. 8y
mom2bugnbee I've seen a trailer for a movie starring John Cusack as "old" Wilson & Paul Dano as "young" Wilson, which is an interesting way to do flashbacks. From the bit I've seen in the trailer, he seems to have always been quite tortured. I think I might want to read this before I see the movie. 8y
ReadingEnvy Just makes me sing the Barenaked Ladies song... I'm lying in bed,just like Brian Wilson..... 8y
BookBabe 😃👍🏻 8y
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