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Article: Chairman of the board Surf-rock supremo Brian Wilson plays Glasgow this week. So why do local bands still love the Beach Boys?
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- January 20, 2002
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Last summer, Edinburgh Castle hosted a concert where the most
melodically inventive band in the world supported the least. Those
bands were the Beach Boys and Status Quo. I don't have to say which
was which, do I?
It wasn't the real Beach Boys, of course. Of the original band,
only Mike Love is left. Al Jardine has a rival Beach Boys-playing
group, Dennis Wilson drowned in 1983 and cancer claimed his brother
Carl in 1997. The third Wilson, Brian, effectively left the band in
the early 1980s, a victim of band politics and mental health
problems.
But as the group's main songwriter, Brian Wilson is the Beach Boys
to many people. Brian rarely performs outside the United States, but
later this ...