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Article: CD Of The Week: Brian Wilson: Old son, new dawn
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 29, 2008
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BRIAN WILSON: THAT LUCKY OLD SUN ***
CAPITOL, GBP 12.99
MANY have sung of the healing power of music, but Brian Wilson
must be the most dramatic embodiment of its rehabilitating
properties. As little as a decade ago, the Beach Boys founder was
regarded as a lost cause, the fragile genius who had fallen victim
to mental illness and destructive influences at the peak of his
creative powers and was considered too damaged to face his adoring
public again.
But instead, with the nurturing love of his wife and a new band,
Wilson has completely turned around his fortunes, leapfrogging from
almost total musical blackout to what he describes as a "creative
explosion" in the last few years, touring ...