A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson: 
Fifty years ago, rock lost Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper in a plane crash. (Feb. 3, 1959)
2008
Tormented hero comes home:
In June 1978, Beach Boy Brian Wilson — without telling his wife or bandmates — decided to escape his life and hitchhike to Mexico.
Sitting in the restaurant of a suburban Seattle hotel having breakfast, Carnie Wilson was told by her waitress that Wilson Phillips songs had been playing through her head all morning.
2008 dominian42
It's a great week to be a Brian Wilson fan in Southern California, with the release of a great new DVD package, an in-person signing, and, finally, a performance of his very fine new album in the city that inspired it.
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2008 Cover by Stephen Newcombe
2008 May
Januari 20, 2009: Barack Obama is the new President of the USA
The famous folk singer from Fishkill, from whom the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. first heard the song "We Shall Overcome," shared some advice Sunday with the man who inherited the famous civil rights leader's staggering legacy.
Words and music, powerful music, closed out the Smithsonian Institution show "New Harmonies" at the Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum in Oil City on Sunday.
Artist: Captain & Tennille
NORTH NEWTON, KAN. – The King’s Singers make their fifth appearance on a Harvey County college campus when they perform in Bethel College’s Memorial Hall next month.
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In Memoriam Gene Puerling
"Working On a Dream," Bruce Springsteen (Columbia) THREE AND A HALF STARS
When it comes to living rock 'n' roll legends, few hold as much allure as Brian Wilson. The pop hits, the grand orchestrations, the battles with drugs and mental health issues, the lost albums and the recent career rebirth all make for a compellingly colorful narrative.
("Sadness Has No End") Part 15
One of the last times that Sophie Milman sang the Beach Boys' God Only Knows in public, she had a captive audience of fellow passengers on an Air Canada flight. It wasn't a planned performance, said the Toronto-based jazz singer.
It is unfair to compare anything French with anything non-French. To whom, you ask?
Brian Wilson has lined up a slew of promotional appearances--along with a pair of live shows--this month to support his forthcoming DVD, "That Lucky Old Sun."
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The members of reformed girl group WILSON PHILLIPS are planning their comeback tour around their duties as mums - the trio now has eight kids between them
There is some careless talk about digital downloads signalling the death of the album. So before it becomes obsolete, we'd better figure out what makes the LP a thing of wonder
It’s my guess that when the votes are tallied at the end of this decade, Fennesz’s 2001 opus Endless Summer will go down as one of the top five or so albums of the preceding ten years.
WHETHER you’re old enough to remember the songs first time around or heard your parents playing their records, chances are you will know and love at least one Motown song.
This Month With Several Special Events & Concerts Around the Release of His New 'That Lucky Old Sun' DVD
Like Paul McCartney and Sting, Brian Wilson is one of rock &roll's most important figures who just happens to play bass.
Christian Fennesz is an Austrian guitarist and electronic musician. His 2001 album, Endless Summer, is one of this decade’s definitive recordings. Its warm, melodic ambience coupled with startling passages of crackling electronics and noise were focused into a then nearly unheard of pop context. The album’s 2004 follow-up, Venice, marked a noticeable change toward a darker, more ethereal tone in his work.
"Number 5: Touring Australia
World Cafe, January 7, 2009 - Shugo Tokumaru is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo.
A sunny climate like that in Southern California comes to mind on a day like this. Here are five songs with California in the title:
Adrian Bourgeois follows his dad, Brent, into music, ministry
Ah yeah, this is the stuff. Friends, the world is indeed a better place now that Brian Wilson is back making his own music again.
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