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Article: Sun-kissed; After finishing his long-lost "Smile," Beach Boys guru Brian Wilson returns with a tribute to Los Angeles.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 14, 2008
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Byline: JON BREAM; STAFF WRITER
Smiling liberated Brian Wilson.
The act of completing his pop opus "Smile," 37 years after he'd abandoned it, suddenly reopened the creative floodgates for the reclusive Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and he wrote 18 songs in a month.
"I had a creative explosion a couple of summers ago," said Wilson, the guiding light of the Beach Boys and rock's most famous living casualty.
Victimized by parental abuse, drug abuse, depression and misguided therapies (he has schizoaffective disorder), the 66-year-old Californian resurfaced this year with those new songs on "That Lucky Old Sun," a love letter to Los Angeles. For many, "Sun" will ...