Episode #248 | 9.2.25 | sources

Brian Wilson: Love and Mercy, Murder, Theft, and Manipulation

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Brian Wilson was the quiet one. The genius in the bathrobe. The ghost at the piano bench. He wrote Pet Sounds, rewrote pop music history, and was nearly destroyed for it. This is the story of how mercy, murder, theft, and family fractured the mind behind the Beach Boys—and how Brian Wilson reclaimed his music, his story, and his soul..

*art by Avi Spivak

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