The Beach Boys Are Back in Town
Michael Gross, Swank, 1977
BRIAN WILSON SAT behind a grand piano, nervously eyeing the camera pointed at his face. "When I was a little boy," he said, "my mother told me about vibrations." Scott Steinberg, his compact 19-year-old bodyguard, watched carefully.
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