USA: NEW YORK'S RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL HAS TRIBUTE CONCERT TO BRIAN WILSON OF THE BEACH BOYS

Record ID: 391164

  • Title: USA: NEW YORK'S RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL HAS TRIBUTE CONCERT TO BRIAN WILSON OF THE BEACH BOYS
  • Date: 29th March 2001
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA (MARCH 29, 2001) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) MATHEW SWEET, SINGER SAYING, "What really means so much to me I've always really loved melodic music, I always gravitated toward that even as a kid and Brian's songs do this thing that I think is to me the greatest thing that you can achieve in songs which is they, a turn in the melody will make
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  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment,General
  • Reuters ID: LVAAST6CC9NGEEO69UEBZ8IUSU0M
  • Story Text: Elton John, Ricky Martin and Billy Joel were just a few of the celebrities who came out to pay tribute to the man behind the music of the "Beach Boys", Brian Wilson at New York's Radio City Music Hall on Thursday.
    The Beach Boys were the definitive American boy band of the 1960's. They were clean-cut, California kids who sang about the perfect wave, "California Girls" and fast cars.
    Their music defined a nation and a culture more than any other band then and now. The man behind the music and lyrics of the Beach Boys was Brian Wilson and many of the greatest entertainers in the world came out to pay tribute to him at New York's famed Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night.
    One of the greatest living record producers, Phil Ramone spoke about the impact that Brian Wilson's music had on a nation used to just dancing to surf music, "I think you know in the world of pop music in the early 60's people just danced and had good time with surfing music but it took on a whole other power when he started to write these incredible songs and his arranging, he's an incredible vocal arranger and orchestrator people don't realize that "Pet Sounds" was done by him."
    In 1962, Brian Wilson co-founded The Beach Boys. Wilson was the arranger, producer, and co-writer on hits that include, "Surfer Girl," "I Get Around," and "God Only Knows". Wilson was far ahead of his time in the recording studio first by taking total control of song selection, the musicians and the production of Beach Boys albums. Then in 1966, he and the Beach Boys produced, "Pet Songs" still considered today, one of the finest rock and roll albums of its time.
    The legendary Beatles producer, George Martin spoke of a rivalry between The Beatles and The Beach Boys, "Well there was a tremendous rivalry when I first heard, when the Beatles first heard, "Pet Sounds" and I heard it along with them we thought wow, can we ever do better than this and that's before we started doing, "Pepper," "Sgt.
    Pepper" so we tried very hard and I spoke to Brian about it and he said, when I heard Pepper, he said I didn't think we'd ever be able to beat that, so it was a rivalry between the two of them.."
    Brian Douglas Wilson was only 19 when he formed the Beach Boys with his younger brothers, Dennis and Carl. Along with cousin, Mike Love and friend Al Jardine the boys immediately set out to sing songs about the latest California craze, surfing.They used a guitar sound much like that of Check Berry and harmonized in a way that was popular at the time but eventually turned out to be truly ahead of its time.
    Rock and roll superstar, Mathew Sweet came out to pay tribute to Wilson and said that his songs, "Do this thing that I think is to me the greatest thing that you can achieve in songs which is that, a turn in the melody will make you feel something inside you know the sort of songs that might make you cry or whatever you know and he just wrote so many of those beautiful songs so his quotient of that thing I love is higher than most people you know."
    Brian Wilson loved harmony and melody. He used a multi track tape recorder and experimented with different overlapping of vocals. He was nearly deaf in one ear but nothing stopped him from turning the Beach Boys into a hit. Every song was a new triumph and today the Beach Boys are the stuff legends are made of and Brain Wilson stands alone at the top of a heap great recording artists who live on in the hearts, minds and radios of millions of people around the world.
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