52 Endless Summer: Brian Wilson Pt 4 Pet Sounds To Smile

Happy Summer 2025 Rock N Roll Fashionistas! #BrianWilsonEndlessSummer2025 Join us for the exciting conclusion of our Four Part expose on the life and times of the late Brian Wilson (still feels weird, "the late" part) In this ridiculously informative episode we reveal: Why Brian relinquished the role of primary bass player for Pet Sounds in favor of newly inducted Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame session bassist Carol Kaye How Brain came to create his masterpiece Pet Sounds with hired hand jingle lyric writer and advertising copywriter Tony Asher The origins of the hip, cool Laurel Canyon music scene, the spiritual nexus to 1960s intelligentsia tucked high in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California Which Beach Boy forbid the use of the chorus "Hold Onto Your Ego" on Pet Sounds, fearing the song was about him? That time the record executives told Brian Wilson, "You can't use the word GOD in the title of a pop song!" How Brian Wilson influenced the Beatles who influenced Brian Wilson who influenced the Beatles who influenced Brian Wilson.  The Beach Boys to Rubber Soul to Pet Sounds to Smile to Sgt. Pepper How it all went wrong for Brian Wilson, culminating in the non release of the most legendary unreleased album in the history of pop music Detailing that turbulent time in the life of Brian Wilson in the mid 1960s before he spent a decade in bed in the 1970s "Lay in a bed, just like Brian Wilson did" - Barenaked Ladies How the very final Beach Boys album That's Why God Made The Radio, on the occasion of the band's 50th anniversary in 2012, paved the way for Brian's triumphant return with his final album of pop music No Pier Pressure in 2015 Legendary Beatles producer the late Sir George Martin & Ludwig van Beethoven, what do they have in common besides music? The tragic last days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his Requiem Mass unfinished and his estate in tatters... All of this and MORE!  In the latest episode of Rock N Roll Fashionistas, contextualizing rock n roll since Woodstock, 2024. OPENING TRACKS: Our Prayer from the Beach Boys Smile Sessions album recorded September 19, 1966 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/our-prayer/720113626?i=720113663  Let's Go Away For Awhile composed by Brian Wilson for the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 https://music.apple.com/ca/album/lets-go-away-for-awhile/1440841241?i=1440841254 I Just Wasn't Made For These Time from the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 with music by Brian Wilson and lyrics by Tony Asher https://music.apple.com/ca/album/i-just-wasnt-made-for-these-times/1440841241?i=1440841263 CLOSING TRACK: God Only Knows from the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album released May 16, 1966 with music by Brian Wilson and lyrics by Tony Asher https://music.apple.com/ca/album/god-only-knows/1440841241?i=1440841258   Want on the mailing list? Only one weekly update email, we promise! Wanna leave a comment? Need to contact us? Visit the show's website at www.rocknrollfashionistas.com   *Please Note: Audio portions of this podcast have been reproduced under the fair use doctrine. This use is intended to be transformative, adding perspective to the original work, serving an educational purpose rather than commercial gain. This use is intended academically and does not serve as a substitute for the original.