When he produced Smile as a solo album in 2004 it won a Grammy and was regarded as most music critics’ album of the year. So it's fitting that actress Elizabeth Banks should party with the woman herself at the movie's DVD launch in LA on Monday. Brian Wilson’s story in Love & Mercy is a multilayered tale of stratospheric success, mental illness, family dysfunction, emotional abuse and, ultimately, quiet redemption. Having seen the documentary The Wrecking Crew recently and knowing that they were involved with recording the Beach Boys music in the studio gave me an extra perspective into the film. In 19 NME readers even voted them best vocal group ahead of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.Īfter a career that has spanned seven decades, Brian is showing no signs of slowing down. She plays the wife of Brian Wilson in Beach Boys film, Love and Mercy. They became the Beach Boys and went on to sell more than 100 million records. but Love & Mercy goes way beyond the trite to give us a peek inside Wilson’s mental illness.
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In 1961, aged 19, he and his brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson formed a band with their cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine. In the interim, there have been a couple of attempts to tackle the Beach Boys story, a 1990 TV drama Summer Dreams: The Story of The Beach Boys and 10 years later The Beach Boys: An American Family. Love and Mercy Trailer German Deutsch (LAND 2015, OT: Love & Mercy )Kinostart: Alle Infos zum Film. Intense, unconventional, often uncomfortable portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson that transcends the typical clichés about madness and creativity. One of his earliest memories was hearing George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue aged two, and by six he was singing solo in front of the church choir.
I love telling little jokes to my daughters.”Ĭalifornian-born Brian had music in his genes from a young age. Una vida entera perseguido por unas voces en el interior de su cabeza que lo mismo le permitan componer la ms bella e innovadora meloda como le transportaban hasta el mismo infierno.
I say stay away from drugs and don’t take pills. Well now there’s a movie about the founder of this mostly family rock group, and as ’s Arts & Entertainment writer Chris Hewitt says, Brian Wilson found love and mercy in his second act. So has he had the chat about addiction to his younger, adopted kids? He replies with a laugh: “Yes I have that conversation. One of the musical groups every baby boomer remembers is The Beach Boys.They were Fun, Fun, Fun (til her Daddy took the T-Bird away).