MINI: Brian Wilson

Vale Brian Wilson - Beach Boys icon passes away at 82

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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good Morning, Rio, Good morning, Good morning, Patsy.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
So big news today, the biggest news today if you
listened to Patsy these news at six o'clock because the
sound of Brian Wilson has passed away. Brian Wilson. Some
of you, he depends on how old he was. Brian Wilson.
You might not remember the name, but Brian Wilson will
re be mended as the most important I think pop
music genius of our times. I mean, oh my god,
the Beach Boys, there are so many great songs. This

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morning before the show, we were putting the show together
and we heard the news that Brian Wilson had passed away.
We found these amazing isolated vocals. You remember on the
early days of the show, Rio, we used to do
this every single week. Would I play it an isolated vocal,
which is a song, but it's just a vocal track,
and we would listening to the isolated vocal about two minutes.
Then we played the song. Most people would say that,

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actually the song isn't as good as the isolated vocal,
but you would always hear the song in a better way.
We've got good vibrations, and God only knows the isolated
versions of those who play to you today as well.
But it was the Pet Sounds as an album that's
really dear to my heart. When I was seven, I
got this tape recorder that my mum got me, and
that was the first album I ever heard.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh wow, And I didn't know anything.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I was seven. I had no idea what the Beach
Boys were, didn't even know where they were in the world.
But all I know is there were these lovely, beautiful songs.
Some of them are already sad, and some of them
are really really would just vibe you up like good vibrations,
and God only knows is quite sad. And also years
ago I was interviewing Paul McCartney and I was talking
about the most important albums in the world, and he

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was said, there's only one. There's only one important album
in the world, and that is Pet Sounds. Well from that,
he goes, I literally remember when we all were the
band all heard it. We kept playing it back and
back and back, and we were saying, we need to
really up our game.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Imagine you're in.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
The beat and you're saying to each other, we need
to up our game. And that was the impact of
the Beach Boys. But the Beach Boys is Brian Wilson.
He was like the Stonemason and the architect of not
just the Beach Boys, but he literally created pop music.
No matter what pop music you enjoyed today or from
the eighties or nineties, you know, and the impact on

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the Beats, but it all flows down from King Brian Wilson.

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Speaker 1 (02:36):
What the really Sad news about the genius, the greatest
genius that ever being pop music Brian Wilson's passing. It
is also a good reason to remind us of the
music that he leaves behind that will be around for many,
many more generations to enjoy. Listen to Pau McCartney. This
is a young Pau McCartney talking about the influence of
the Beach Boys and Brian Wilson.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
The big influence was Pet Sounds Beach Boys. That was
the album Flipped Me. It still does actually still one
of my favorite albums of all time, just because the
musical invention on that is like wow. But that was
the big thing for me. I just thought, oh damn,
this is the album of all time. What the hell
are we gonna do? So my ideas took off from
that standard. I wanted to do stuff beyond that.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Isn't it amazing just that the Beatles, Paul McCartney a
visionary himself being humbled by the greatness of the Beach Boys,
and Brian Wilson. Okay, so we're gonna play a couple
of songs. We've played Surfing USA an hour ago. I'm
about to play wouldn't it be nice? And then at
eight this morning, going to play good Vibrations. Before we
play the songs, I'm going to play an isolated vocal
and this is where it's the music all stripped back

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and you'll hear just the harmonies of Brian Wilson and
his brothers. And I found this quote I remember months ago.
I found this quote from a Brian Wilson interview. Happened
to be reading early on, this is Brian Wilson. Early on,
I learned that when I tuned the world out, I
was able to tune into a mysterious God given music.
It was my gift and it allowed me to interpret

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and understand emotions I couldn't articulate. Isn't that incredible? This
is the closest thing I think we have to the
voice of God. When you hear the harmonies of the
Wilson brothers.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
A happy times together. I wish every kist was inver.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Who wouldn't it be?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Let's played the song now rip Brian Wilson, gom had
never forgotten. Five minutes past seven, Good Morning.

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Big News Today, music can actually bigger. The Music News
is the partner of Brian Wilson at eighty two, a
musical genius and literally the godfather of pop music. He
created the whole genre. In two thousand, Poor McCartney said,
pau McCartney inducted Brian Wilson into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, and I found some of the words
he said, these are amazing, but bear in mind they're

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coming from a genius himself, Paugh McCartney. Brian Wilson wrote
some of the music that when I played it, it
made me cry and I couldn't never work out why
it wasn't necessarily the words or the music. There was
just something so deep buried in it. There are certain
pieces of music that can do this to me and
just reaches right down on us. I think that's the
sign of great genius to me, to do that with
a bunch of words and a bunch of notes. How

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does someone do that? This man, Brian Wilson, deserves to
be in the Hall of Fame, that's for sure. So
thank you, sir for everything you've done for me, for
making me cry, for having me do the thing you
do with your music. You just put those notes and
those harmonies together, stick a couple of words over the
top of it, and you've got me. Any day now,
we're about to play good Vibrations, which to me sums

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up hopefully what we do with you guys every single day.
But listen to this, it's the isolated track from it.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'm digging up vibrations.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
She's giving me exactis.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Et anxiety, just something angelic about what they did.

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