JEFF TAMARKIN - 22/Nov/2010 Brian Wilson has always cited a fixed list of influences topped by Phil Spector, The Beatles, The Four Freshmen, Chuck Berry and George Gershwin. The ...
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Adrian Edwards - 06/Sep/2010 It’s only right to be sceptical when approaching this album. Just how has Brian Wilson, former leading light of The Beach Boys, approached these songs...
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Andy Gill - 03/Sep/2010  It's no surprise to find the Great Arranger of his era tackling the Great American Songbook; but sadly, the absence of surprise also applies to the ...
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Michael Hann - 02/Sep/2010  Well, one can see why it happened. After all, Rod Stewart has had enormous success with his Great American Songbook albums of covers of pre-rock class...
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Gary Graff - 27/Aug/2010 Brian Wilson says he doesn't really need to cover someone else's material. But if he's going to, it may as well be one of the best. The Beach Boys mas...
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Marcus David - 27/Aug/2010  It's been well-documented that Brian Wilson has spent the lion's share of his life going madcap crazy. Nearly as renowned for his legendary bedridden ...
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cloudspeakers - 26/Aug/2010 Brian Wilson, a little befuddled and slightly deaf, is talking to Uncut about his love of George Gershwin. ?You know that riff in ?Rhapsody In Blue??...
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Jakob Dorof - 20/Aug/2010  “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Rhapsody in Blue” — if there’s any song that has loomed larger in the lore of Brian Wilson than The Ronettes’...
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Crispin Kott - 18/Aug/2010  In the more than a decade since Wilson’s career rose majestically from the ashes of a deep catatonic funk, he’s been helped along in his journey by va...
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JONATHAN DONALDSON - 18/Aug/2010  George and Ira Gershwin's music may have been the pop music of its day, but - like much of the Great American Songbook - it was more sophisticated tha...
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