{"id":58492,"date":"2025-06-12T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58492"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:40:41","slug":"rip-brian-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58492","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Brian Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What does one say about the death of a man whose musical genius comes along just once in any normal human being’s lifetime.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Brian Wilson was the rarest of geniuses. He founded a musical group, the Beach Boys with his brothers, a cousin and a boyhood pal. They made music for 60 years that stands the test of time to this very day.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He blended exquisite harmonies with extraordinary production values and left a legacy that will live far beyond Wilson’s 82 years on this Earth. Indeed, they might, indeed, live forever.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Wilson led a well-chronicled troubled life. He was beset with drug addiction, personality disorders, emotional fragility caused in large part by his well-known stage fright. He fought through it all.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He continued to make music that will last through the ages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I am not equipped rhetorically to pay appropriate tribute to this once-in-a-lifetime talent. I just know in my heart that his music helped me come of age in the 1960s … and for that he will have my eternal gratitude.<\/p>\r\n\n

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What does one say about the death of a man whose musical genius comes along just once in any normal human being’s lifetime. Brian Wilson was the rarest of geniuses. He founded a musical group, the Beach Boys with his brothers, a cousin and a boyhood pal. They made music for 60 years that stands … Continue reading RIP, Brian Wilson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8395,7455],"class_list":["post-58492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-beach-boys","tag-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58494,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58492\/revisions\/58494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}