On the trail of the secret: The drama of the “Beach Boy”
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Brian Wilson, the pop group's musical mastermind, had one mission: to create the best album of all time. Why he failed—and what the Beatles had to do with it.
If you ask Paul McCartney who wrote the best pop song of all time, he gives a clear answer: Brian Wilson. The song? " God Only Knows " by Wilson's band, the Beach Boys . A love song so catchy, so harmonically complex and unusually orchestrated that McCartney and others have been raving about it for decades. The accompanying album "Pet Sounds", which Wilson, only 24 at the time, wrote and produced, is one of the most influential albums in rock history . It was released in 1966. And that same year, Wilson dedicated himself to a mission that would drain all his energy: to make the best rock album of all time - "Smile".
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