Brian Wilson Smiles Again: Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2004
WE STILL HAVE so much invested in the idea of Brian Wilsons genius. Three decades since he last wrote a genuinely great song, we continue to revere this damaged, insular, perhaps autistic man – the suburban misfit who elevated Californian teen pop to a level of musical genius that places him alongside Mozart and Schubert.
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