“God Only Knows.” “Darlin’.” He was incredible. My brother Carl is probably my favorite singer. It just really surprised me very much when he sang. He’s a great singer, one of the greatest rock & roll singers that ever lived. My relationship with my brothers and my cousin and Al, the way we worked together, the way they sang. What else struck you about your life when you were writing the book? “You’ve got to stop drinking alcohol.” And I did I stopped. My doctor told me to knock off the alcohol. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can’t change, the courage to change the things I can’t.” I’ve been sober now for three-and-a-half years. I had the courage to face up to my … There’s a “Serenity Prayer” for Alcoholics Anonymous. What did you learn about yourself from writing this book? It’s a very big body of water, which scared me very much. You wrote in the book that the ocean terrified you when you first saw it. Recording “California Girls.” When I first saw the ocean, when my dad took me and my brothers down to the ocean. The night we recorded “Good Vibrations” at CBS Studio in Los Angeles was the biggest moment of my life. When you were going through the book and thinking back on your life, what made you the happiest? I just sat there and said to myself, “God, what a blessing it was to have a father that could teach me little tricks.” Like being a perfectionist. When you wrote about your first marriage, you said you did it to be like him – it was partially because your dad got married. I learned to be a little kinder with my kids. What did you take from your father that you put into your own life as a dad? Was it hard to come to a positive place with his memory? Do it right.” He was just one of those crazy dads. He made us mow the lawn and when we were done, he’d say, “Mow it again.” That’s just the way it was. How did you get to the point where you could accept the good with the bad? You seem to have very conflicted feelings about him he was abusive but you loved him. It was tough for me because he was the first male figure in my life. When you were working on the book, what did you have to work the hardest on to get right? It took a lot of inner strength to go through it. How did you allow yourself to open up about that subject? Well, just that the struggle for mental health is the result of bad drugs. What do you want people to know about your mental-health struggles? I’ve told a lot of people don’t take psychedelic drugs. I talk a lot about my bad experiences on drugs in the book for that reason.
I want people to realize that drugs can be very detrimental and dangerous. What did you want people to learn from your life story?
“Squeeze it,” he says bluntly, unprompted. When he’s done talking, he stands up and puts out his hand forcefully. His voice occasionally quivers as he finds the right words, which sometimes take bizarre turns except for when the subject that seems to matter most to him, family, comes up. When Wilson speaks with Rolling Stone, looking back on his life, relationships and music, he alternates between speaking frankly and with wonder. And he broaches the toll LSD took on him.
#STORY OF MY LIFE SONG MIKE NESS MOVIE#
Eugene Landy, as depicted recently in the movie Love & Mercy – writing that he feels safest and most at peace in a navy-blue chair at home. He addresses his mental illness – and his relationship with the domineering Dr. He talks about the ups and downs he and his brothers, Dennis and Carl, his cousin Mike and the rest of the Beach Boys have weathered over the years. In it, he writes about the distance he felt from his domineering father, who managed the group, as well as the admiration he had for him.
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