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Article: Brian Wilson - genius of pop. It's a bit of a cliche. But what does it mean? Barney Hoskyns on all the lonely madmen... and woman
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 1, 1995
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One of the key moments in I Just Wasn't Made For These Times,
record producer Don Was's black-and-white film about Brian Wilson
of the Beach Boys, is a sequence of home-movie footage accompanied
by a home- recorded demo of a song called "Still I Dream Of It".
As we watch the Brian of 1966 playing with his daughters in his
Beverly Hills garden, we hear the Brian of 1976 - at the nadir of
his drugged- out retreat from reality - tunelessly croaking "Still
I Dream Of It" at the piano. The juxtaposition of the images of
Brian in his prime with the sound of the man at his most regressed
is painfully poignant. Most pathetic of all is the lyric: "Time for
supper now / Day's been hard and I'm so ...