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From Chris: Absolutely delightful documentary about Brian Wilson and his music for the Beach Boys, fully authorized by his family. I am a gigantic Beach Boys fan - owning everything they ever recorded during the 60s and 70s. Wilson is a musical genius on par with Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Gershwin, Dylan and other towering musicians. Give Pet Sounds a listen some time.
Rolling Stone writer Jason Fine drives Brian Wilson around his old haunts in LA as they listen to Beach Boys music. Wilson isn't quite senile but the decades of alcohol, drug and mental problems have taken their toll on his recall. He wrote California Girls a week after he took his first acid trip.
Loads of famous industry faces like Elton John and Bruce Springsteen pop up, offering their opinions on Wilson's music. One of the best moments is Brian Wilson hearing his deceased brother Dennis Wilson's '70s album Pacific Ocean Blue for the first time, what many insiders consider a lost classic. In Brian's cocaine haze of the 1970s, he had apparently missed hearing it.