Al Jardine Remembers Brian Wilson, and Their Last Meeting
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The Beach Boys‘ Al Jardine has paid tribute to his late bandmate Brian Wilson in a new statement – see his full quote below. Wilson’s death was announced yesterday (June 11) via his family ...
The Beach Boys were one of the USA's biggest bands of the 1960s, who introduced surf-rock to worldwide audience with songs like I Get Around, Surfin' USA and Good Vibrations. The group was formed by Wilson with his younger brothers Carl and Dennis, cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine.
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists,