The Beach Boys are looking back on a life of sunshine and sorrow in a new Disney+ documentary
FILE - Bruce Johnston, from left, David Marks, Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine of The Beach Boys pose backstage at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 12, 2012. A new documentary about the band premieres May 24 on Disney+. Both the Beach Boys and “The Beach Boys” — the new documentary dropping Friday on Disney+ — are all about blending a range of voices.
“It was the blend of everything,” Marshall told The Associated Press in a joint interview with Love and Jardine in a Hollywood recording studio. “It’s the blend not only of the family story, but the blend of the harmonies. If you took one element out, you wouldn’t have the Beach Boys.” The film includes extensive new interviews with the singer Love and singer-guitarist Jardine, 81. And it draws from many archive interviews to give the perspectives of singer-guitarist Carl Wilson, who died from cancer in 1998 at age 51, singer-drummer Dennis Wilson, who drowned in a Los Angeles-area harbor in 1984 at age 30, and to their older brother Brian, mastermind of the band's sound.
It is rarely acknowledged, for example, that Love wrote the lyrics to dozens of songs including “I Get Around,” “California Girls,” "Help Me Rhonda," and the sweetly poetic “Good Vibrations,” penned in the car on the way to the session to record them: "I love the colorful clothes she wears, and the way the sunlight plays upon her hair."
Murry Wilson's surreptitious sale led to the song rights becoming a tangled thicket that for years kept Marshall, who made similar documentaries on the Bee Gees in 2022 and Carole King and James Taylor in 2020, from making the Beach Boys film that he'd long dreamed of. But the recent purchase of the rights by his friend Irving Azoff gave him a green light.
It also examines the mental health struggles that left Brian Wilson unable to make music for long stretches, and the bitter, band-related disputes that became broader family disputes.
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