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Beach Boys' Brian Wilson's torture at the hands of his rotten father and the deep turmoil before his death
'It was hard to feel happy and light when there were sad things in my head,' Wilson wrote in his 2016 autobiography I Am Brian Wilson. 'It was hard to feel free when I was tied down.
But behind Brian Wilson’s musical genius lay a life shaped by trauma, mental illness, and deep personal turmoil—pain that began in childhood and surfaced even as his fame grew. Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson was hailed by his fellow stars as tributes poured in following the legendary musician's death aged 82; pictured 1968 He’d later try to distance himself from the Manson clan, who went on to murder victims including actress Sharon Tate; Dennis declined to testify against the killer but was privately interviewed by authorities before it was deemed his testimony was not needed.
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