Breaking news

Brian Wilson is releasing an autobiography on October 11. The book, aptly titled I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir, should prove less controversial than his 1991 memoir, which spurred some legal action from his cousin and former bandmate Mike Love. The book also proved controversial due to its co-writing by Eugene Landy.

An excerpt of the book was released this week:

“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.”

To preorder I Am Brian Wilson, click here.

Albums, singles, and tours

• Yes will revive their “Album Series” tour beginning on July 27 in Columbus, Ohio. The band will be performing 1980’s Drama and 1973’s Tales from Topographic Oceans, as well as some of their biggest hits.
• According to Billboard, entertainment producer Goldenvoice is rumored to be in the process of putting together a festival featuring the likes of Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, and the Who.
• Bob Seger joined Bruce Springsteen onstage during his concert in Detroit this past week. Watch the video of their impromptu duet here.
• AC/DC will have a new frontman for their Rock or Bust tour: Guns ‘n’ Roses vocalist Axl Rose. AC/DC’s summer dates in the US will be postponed to work around Guns ‘n’ Roses’ tour schedule.

Happy birthday!

• April 12 – John Kay of Steppenwolf (born in 1944)
• April 13 – Don Adams of Get Smart (born in 1923), Brian Pendleton of the Pretty Things (1944), Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane (1944)
• April 14 – Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple (born in 1945)
• April 16 – Bobby Vinton, singer (born in 1935), Dusty Springfield, singer (1939)

Danielle Zabielski

Danielle Zabielski (aka “that girl who loves the Bee Gees more than anything else in the whole wide world”) is an artist, freelancer, and radio producer based in Philadelphia. Art and music are the two loves of her life, particularly the art and music of the 1960s through ‘70s.