Overview
Brian Wilson
Known For
The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's "American Pie"
With a narrative running deeper than a catchy tune and...
The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Pet Sounds,'...
The Beach Boys: A Long Promised Road - Volume 1 & 2 - 1962-1971
Excellent quality collection of live clips from the Beach Boys,...
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group. He originally functioned as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. Wilson is considered a major innovator in the field of music production, the principal originator of the California Sound, one of the first music producer auteurs, and the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument. The unusual creative control Capitol gave him over his own records effectively set a precedent that allowed other bands and artists to act as their own producers or co-producers. He was a major influence on the retrospectively-termed "sunshine pop" and Flower Power music that proceeded.