Brian Wilson

Review of Brian Wilson live at the Hop Farm Festival, Kent, England – 5th July 2014 Last summer I got the chance to see Brian Wilson perform live with a backing band comprising of Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) and younger session musicians Matt Jardine, Darian Sahanaja and Scott Bennett. Having missed out on getting tickets to the Beach Boys 50th anniversary concert in London a couple of years earlier, I jumped at the chance to see the band’s frontman when he scheduled a show just an hour away from

harmonies, the group labeled the Beach Boys, dominated the up and coming surf culture of the early 60s. The Beach Boys are a famous boy band, formed straight out of Hawthorne, California, a surfer’s paradise. Parents Murray and Audree Wilson, raised their three sons, Brian, Carter, and Dennis, to be largely influenced by sports as well as music. Growing up with a songwriter as a father, the children came together and began playing around with various melodies. Eventually, Cousin Mike Love, and good friend

The Emergence of Surf Music Many different music styles emerged during the early 1960's. One of these music styles that was perhaps the most prominent music style to ever come out of Southern California was Surf Music. Surf music was a short-lived phenomenon that occurred from 1961 to 1965 (Nostalgia, 2002). Along with the surf music craze, Hollywood also started producing numerous movies about surfing, including Gidget, and Endless Summer (St. James Encyclopedia, 2003

each other? After all, I couldn’t even distinguish the difference between them. A problem that could have arose from the two bands is one being considered a “copycat.” The people involved with my question mainly revolved around Brian Wilson and Paul McCartney. Brian Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer and who co-founded The Beach Boys. Paul McCartney is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and composer and who gained his worldwide fame as the bass guitarist

felt they had to push boundaries in order to truly show the public what they were capable of as songwriters. But why did these ‘surfers’ feel the need to show off their musical capabilities? Pet Sounds was the work that did exactly this, allowing Brian Wilson share his every emotion through music and lyrics, while also being somewhat uncompromising in terms of the production and his musical abilities. The mid 1960s were an important era not only musically, but also historically. Sixties America seemed

relationship from beginning to the end. It pits the youthful optimism of a blooming romance against the adult cynicism that comes with a breakup. When listening to the record, the notion of longing for something is ever present in the music. It seems that Brian Wilson was trying to make his audience feel a type of longing through the course of the tracks.

wrote “The Sacred,” was married and later got divorced. He could have written this poem when he was grieving that and did not want to interact with anyone else. His car was probably the place he went to have privacy and quiet, at times like that. Brian Wilson, who wrote “In My Room” for The Beach Boys, wrote the poem after battling drugs, alcohol, abuse, and mental illness for years. The poem could have a lot to do with what he felt like while he was going through everything. He probably

a band that started in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The band consisted of: Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson (all brothers), Mike Love (cousin of the three Wilson brothers), and Al Jardine. Jardine speaks of Pet Sounds’ title with Huffington Post: “After making more inquiries, Jardine found out that another Beach Boy, Mike Love, had claimed Wilson could hear things only a dog could hear — due to the amount of takes Wilson would require of the band to get things right in his mind”. From just looking

with the assassination of JFK and MLK and civil rights movements, life incorporated sex, drugs, and music as a way of dealing with the feelings. Brian Wilson, the lead singer, and writer of the Beach Boys created “Good Vibrations” which had a great impact on the culture of the 1960’s. During a period where drugs were prevalent and many trials Americans,

Executive Summary This report is based on the system at the Births, Deaths and Marriages office of the Salford Council. The first part defines soft systems methodology, which was the method used to gain an understanding of the situation, and why it was an appropriate methodology to use. A rich picture is employed to illustrate the situation at the Births, Deaths and Marriages office. Root definitions are created using the CATWOE technique for the analysis of the system from the perspective of