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Now the subject of the movie Love & Mercy, starring John Cusack! Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, along with Mike Love and Al Jardine - better known as the Beach Boys, rocketed out of a working-class Los Angeles suburb in the early sixties, and their sun-and-surf sound captured the imagination of kids across the world. In a few short years, they rode the wave all the way to the top, standing with the Beatles as one of the world's biggest bands. Despite their utopian visions, infectious hooks, and stunning harmonies, the Beach Boys were beset by drug abuse, jealousy, and terrifying mental illness. In "Catch a Wave", Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music's most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and never-before heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days through Brian's deepening emotional problems to his triumphant re-emergence with the release of Smile, the legendarily unreleased album he had originally shelved.

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  • Title Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
  • Author Peter Ames Carlin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 342
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rodale Books, New York
  • Publication date June 26, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781594867491 / 1594867496
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.64 x 0.97 in (22.76 x 16.87 x 2.46 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock musicians - United States, Wilson, Brian
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006004928
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

PETER AMES CARLIN's award-winning reportage on Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys has appeared in the New York Times, People, American Heritage, and the Portland Oregonian, where he is currently the newspaper's television critic. Previously he was a senior writer for People in New York.
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