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Brian Wilson’s Friend Remembers First Night “Pop Genius Turned Up At The Door For A Pizza”
The Beach Boys songwriter and celebrated pop music maestro died this week aged
Brian Wilson performing in Los Angeles in 1988Lester Cohen/Getty Images But there have been possibly none so personal as the memories of writer David Leaf, who has recalled how he set out for Los Angeles in 1976 with the firm intention of writing a book about Wilson and his work. As well as writing his book The Beach Boys and the Californian Myth which was published in 1978, Leaf became close friends with his subject after one particular night when he realised just how sweet, but also fragile, Wilson really was. “Harvey and the radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer then drove Brian to what they were certain was safe harbour: my apartment.
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