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The Beach Boys on Lana Del Rey, Charles Manson and their wistful new Disney+ doc
7 months ago

The Beach Boys on Lana Del Rey, Charles Manson and their wistful new Disney+ doc

LA Times  

Mike Love is sitting in a blah-looking room in a Sheraton hotel in North Carolina, the garish pattern of his signature Hawaiian shirt popping against the ochre wallpaper behind him. The Beach Boys’ story has been told countless times in other films and shows and books and podcasts — “too many times,” Johnston, 81, notes with a laugh in a …

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Review: ‘The Beach Boys’ is a sentimental documentary that downplays the band’s squabbles
7 months ago

Review: ‘The Beach Boys’ is a sentimental documentary that downplays the band’s squabbles

LA Times  

I will always watch a film about the Beach Boys — the latest, titled simply “The Beach Boys,” premieres Friday on Disney+ — not just for the part they played in American musical and cultural history but for the part they played in my own. Not even counting the scores of online videos and the all-star tributes, there’s a wealth …

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Judge finds Beach Boys' Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge finds Beach Boys' Brian Wilson needs conservatorship because of mental decline

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A judge found Thursday …

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Brian Wilson’s family, reps want conservatorship for Beach Boys singer who has dementia
10 months, 1 week ago

Brian Wilson’s family, reps want conservatorship for Beach Boys singer who has dementia

LA Times  

Brian Wilson’s psychiatrist confirmed in court documents that the Beach Boys singer, 81, is taking medication for dementia. Brian Wilson‘s longtime business partners are seeking to become the Beach Boys singer’s co-conservators, weeks after the death of his wife, Melinda Wilson. In a petition filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Wilson’s publicist Jean Sievers and business manager LeeAnn Hard …

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Simon Cowell's Walk The Line divides viewers as talent show makes it's long awaited launch
3 years ago

Simon Cowell's Walk The Line divides viewers as talent show makes it's long awaited launch

Daily Mail  

Simon Cowell's latest talent competition aired for the first time on Sunday night. But the Walk The Line series launch - hosted by Maya Jama - left viewers divided, with many confused by the format and others likening the new ITV show to a cheap version of the X Factor. ITV's new talent show Walk The Line - hosted by …

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In the ’60s, the Beach Boys were gods. By the ’70s, ‘has-beens.’ But it’s not that simple
3 years, 3 months ago

In the ’60s, the Beach Boys were gods. By the ’70s, ‘has-beens.’ But it’s not that simple

LA Times  

By 1970, the Beach Boys — one of the defining acts of 1960s pop, and arguably the closest thing America ever produced to a rival of the Beatles — were running low on good vibrations. “It’s such a beautiful song,” he says of “Forever,” which Brian Wilson once described as “a rock ’n’ roll prayer.” Looking back, Wareham compares the …

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