Brian Wilson: Strange Bedfellow
Andy Gill, NME, 2 August 1986
The Beach Boys are 25 years old and, to mark the occasion, that great white whale BRIAN WILSON has finally got up, cleaned up and with the help of his doctor is ready to rock. ANDY GILL dials into the "mad genius" and finds him physically transformed.
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