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Beach Boys’ Former Manager on Brian Wilson: ‘The Three Wilsons Are Finally Back Together’
Brian Wilson's friend and onetime Beach Boys manager Fred Vail remembers the pop music genius, who died this week at 82.
Fred Vail, who managed the group in the Sixties and sang on a long-lost country album that Wilson produced, remembers his friend of 62 years They all fly back at me: meeting them at the old house in Hawthorne; sitting on the floor at Capitol, when he mastered Pet Sounds; at Columbia, when we recorded ‘Good Vibrations’; and then all the shows at the auditorium in Sacramento that I emceed.” Parker, who first met Vail in 2014 and is spearheading the Cows in the Pasture album and accompanying film project, says the magic of Wilson’s music was that it spoke to everyone.
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