The monument of post-year music 60, Brian Wilson, founding member of the Beach Boys group, died at the age of 82 on Wednesday. The genius of America from surfing to global influence.
Brian Wilson, who died on June 11 at 82, embodied the prodigy artist plagued by his demons, each title of which shed light on. He was not the first, since the gouge is gouge, and the piano is piano. Michelangelo (1475-1564), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Jean Joseph Rabearivelo (1901-1937), Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), … The great epochs of art had their geniuses, in advance on their time, sometimes unsuitable. Brian Wilson was part of this certainly cursed, but prestigious list. He was born in a siblings on June 20, 1942 in California in the United States. The physical punishments and moral abuse inflicted by an alcoholic father were the main cause of his demons. However, then young boy, he had an invaluable gift in music: the absolute ear. Then came the decisive influence of the jazzists “The Four Freshmen”. Living in a region where surfing is a religion, the Wilson siblings then decides to compose songs around this sport. In 1961 the Beach Boys legend was born. Brian Wilson, defined as an architect of “California Sound” and “vocal harmonies”, constituted the engine. In the silence of these mental crises, he widen the very philosophy of modern music to the horizon. To measure your impact in modern music, you have to refer to the stack in Queen’s “Bohemian Rapshody”, the tight harmonies of the Eagles … on their album “SGT. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ”(1967), the Beatles were largely inspired by Beach Boys. The Byrd, Rem, Neutral Milk Hotel, Air, or Katy Perry, dozens of groups of pop, rock from around the world have taken a little or enough of Brian Wilson in their music, without forgetting the dubbing of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Questlove, Sean Ono Lennon, etc. Like a whole symbol of the personal fight led by the Californian prodigy, released in 1988 “Love and Mercy”. Letting go, fulfillment and especially the grace of which only geniuses are capable of. Already in a major Ré, Brian Wilson announced his appeasement, the soft tension between melancholy and lightness was sworn between the nuances and the suspended agreements. From a gentle melody, such as the dream of two young lovers under a tree, in the last lights of a beautiful summer day. On June 11, 2025, Brian Wilson forever posed the microphone.
Maminirina Rado