Der Beach-Boys-Kopf hat sein Leben im Buch „I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir“ rekapituliert.
Brian Wilson wird im Oktober seine Autobiografie veröffentlichen. Das Buch, das den Titel „I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir“ tragen wird, erscheint beim Verlagshaus Da Capo Press.
Pitchfork hat einen kurzen Auszug des Buches gepostet und das Erscheinungsdatum mit dem 11. Oktober angegeben. Ob und wann das Buch in deutscher Übersetzung erhältlich sein wird, ist bisher nicht bekannt. Wilson, Mitbegründer der Beach Boys, hat seine 320 Seiten starken Memoiren gemeinsam mit dem Autoren Ben Greeman geschrieben, der bereits mit The Roots‚ ?uestlove und Parliament/Funkadelic-Bassisten George Clinton an ihren Biografien gearbeitet hat.
Lest hier den Auszug aus „I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir“:
My life has been written about over and over again, and that’s mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they’ll get it right and sometimes they’ll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don’t like discussing them. Sometimes I don’t even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of that pain has changed. Sometimes memories come back to me when I least expect them. Maybe that’s the only way it works when you’ve lived the life I’ve lived: starting a band with my brothers that was managed by my father, watching my father become difficult and then impossible, watching myself become difficult and then impossible, watching women I loved come and go, watching children come into the world, watching my brothers get older, watching them pass out of the world. Some of those things shaped me. Others scarred me. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. When I watched my father fly into a rage and take swings at me and my brothers, was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow frustrated with his day job and take solace in music, was that shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I can’t get to them all at once. I’ve had a whole lifetime to take them in. Now I have a whole book to put them out there.
