Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gold, Todd.

Description

1. xiii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 25 cm

Summary

1. Insightful no-holds-barred autobiography of Beach Boys member Brian Wilson.

Subject

1. Wilson, Brian, 1942-
2. Beach Boys
3. Rock musicians > United States > Biography
4. Rock musicians
5. Musicians, American > Biography
6. United States

Genre/Form

1. Autobiographies.
2. Biographies.

Contents

1. Fired! -- Money for drugs -- The glass eye -- Girls -- The Pendletones -- Goin' surfin' -- Songwriters against the world -- Surfin' USA -- Marilyn, Diane, and Barbara -- Meet the Beatles -- All summer long -- Fasten your seat belts -- Lava lites, acid, and seeing God -- The Beach Boys' party! -- Better than everything else -- "God only knows" -- Good and bad vibrations -- Psychedelicate -- "Heroes and villains" -- Fatherhood -- Cocaine and the wizard -- Sold out -- "Sail on sailor" -- Dad -- Click click -- Shrink to the stars -- Therapy -- Brian is back! or love gone bad -- My first Christmas -- Death at Christmas -- Playgirl's Man of the Year -- "Help me, Rhonda" -- The betrayal -- The chemistry of the moment -- Jumping off the Empire State Building -- I almost die -- Learning to walk -- Starting to listen -- Carolyn, no! -- Ghosts -- Dennis, my brother -- Outward bound -- Little children -- Demos -- The love you make -- Love and mercy -- "Water builds up" -- Family fighting -- Sweet insanity -- Wouldn't it be nice.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.