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Radio Ulster,15 Jun 2025,59 mins

The Beach Boys - Love You

Long Player with Steven Rainey

Available for 17 days

It's one of rock's great stories, Brian Wilson, the boy genius, driven to a breakdown after making Pet Sounds as he tried to beat the Beatles. But a story that's not often told is how Brian pulled himself back from the brink in the late 70s to make one of the most personal - and weird - records ever made. With songs about airplanes, beeping the horn of a car, the planets, and TV talk show host Johnny Carson, 1977's The Beach Boys Love You is an erratic masterpiece, a synth-driven odyssey into the mind of Brian Wilson. Using classic tracks and archive, Steven Rainey explores the album that forever changed The Beach Boys.

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