Brian Wilson Announces Memoir: Read an Excerpt
Brian Wilson has announced the release of his autobiography. I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir will be published on October 11 via Da Capo Press. Wilson wrote the 320-page hardcover book with Ben Greenman, who previously collaborated with the Roots’ ?uestlove and Parliament/Funkadelic’s George Clinton on their respective memoirs. Scroll down to check out the cover, plus an excerpt from the book. The Beach Boys co-founder is currently on a world tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds. (It includes a stop at the 2016 Pitchfork Music Festival). On June 10, the album will get a deluxe reissue via Capitol/UMe.
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Excerpt from I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir:
My life has been written about over and over again, and that’s mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they’ll get it right and sometimes they’ll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don’t like discussing them. Sometimes I don’t even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of that pain has changed. Sometimes memories come back to me when I least expect them. Maybe that’s the only way it works when you’ve lived the life I’ve lived: starting a band with my brothers that was managed by my father, watching my father become difficult and then impossible, watching myself become difficult and then impossible, watching women I loved come and go, watching children come into the world, watching my brothers get older, watching them pass out of the world. Some of those things shaped me. Others scarred me. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. When I watched my father fly into a rage and take swings at me and my brothers, was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow frustrated with his day job and take solace in music, was that shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I can’t get to them all at once. I’ve had a whole lifetime to take them in. Now I have a whole book to put them out there.
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