Paul Williams: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys – How Deep is the Ocean? Essays and Conversations
John L. Walters, The Times Literary Supplement, 2001
"IF YOU'VE NEVER read Paul Williams but love Brian Wilson's music, you're in for a revelation", promises David Leaf in the introduction to this amiable but largely witless anthology of Williams' writings about Wilson and the Beach Boys. The revelation is that, as the founder of Crawdaddy magazine, Williams helped invent "rock journalism", a style that melds lazy criticism with personal confession and a general lack of understanding of (or even interest in) the process of creating, performing and recording the music such writers claim to love.
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