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Brian Wilson: Wouldn't It Be Nice - My Own Story

Tom Hibbert, Q, August 1992

IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE Brian Wilson, inspired composer of surfing symphonies and divine pop, writing anything as tabloidesque as: "I was a zonked-out zombie, a star-crossed '60s rock star who took a drug trip and never returned."

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