23 July 2025

Musical wizard and Beach Boys mastermind BRIAN WILSON passed away last month,
aged 82. He was a genius when it came to writing, arranging and producing pure pop pearls with Good Vibrations as one of the best, released in 1966.

Wilson in 2006 in Uncut Magazine: “It took six weeks to record, in five different studios.
I wrote out each musician’s part on music paper then they all played it together. I found
I could work out each part without it being too difficult. It did get tedious, though. The musicians understood it all more or less straight away. ”

Here’s a magical live version performed by Wilson at Live 8 in 2005.