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Brian Wilson Smiles Again: Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London

Barney Hoskyns Rock's Backpages

WE STILL HAVE so much invested in the idea of Brian Wilson’s 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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