{"product_id":"cd-wilson-brian-the-beach-boys-transmission-imporssible-3cd","title":"Transmission Imporssible","description":"American musician, songwriter, singer, record producer and co-founder of The Beach Boys, Brian Douglas Wilson received widespread recognition as one of the most innovative and significant musical figures of his era. His work was distinguished for its high production values, complex harmonies and orchestrations, vocal layering, and introspective or ingenuous themes. He was also known for his versatile head voice and falsetto.\u003cbr\u003eWilson's formative influences included George Gershwin, the Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, and Burt Bacharach. In 1961, he began his professional career as a member of The Beach Boys, serving as the band's songwriter, producer, co-lead vocalist, bassist, keyboardist, and de facto leader. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, he became the first pop musician credited for writing, arranging, producing, and performing his own material. By the mid-1960s he had written or co-written more than two dozen U.S. Top 40 hits, including the number-ones \"Surf City\" (1963), \"I Get Around\" (1964), \"Help Me, Rhonda\" (1965), and \"Good Vibrations\" (1966). He is considered the first rock producer to apply the studio as an instrument and one of the first music producer auteurs.\u003cbr\u003eFacing lifelong struggles with mental illness, Wilson had a nervous breakdown in late 1964 and subsequently withdrew from regular concert touring to focus on songwriting and production. This resulted in works of greater sophistication, such as the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and his first credited solo release, \"Caroline, No\"\u003cbr\u003e(both 1966), as well as the unfinished album Smile. Branded a genius, by the late 1960s his productivity and mental health had significantly declined, leading to periods marked by reclusion, overeating, and substance abuse.\u003cbr\u003eThis new triple-disc-set features rare live and studio recordings by Brian Wilson, both with and without The Beach Boys, which illustrate, all at once, the great man’s diversity, talent and genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDISC ONE here features Brian’s 2005 appearance at the Glastonbury Festival where he performed a delightful ‘greatest hits’ style set that cemented his new touring regime - a period deemed by fellow musicians as ‘the happiest we’ve seen Brian in ages’.\u003cbr\u003eDISC TWO contains Brian’s previously unreleased Sweet Insanity album, recorded as his second solo-effort with Dr. Eugene Landy as main lyricist. The second disc also features a selection of other rarities and out-takes from Brian’s midperiod solo-career.\u003cbr\u003eDISC THREE concludes this collection with a live broadcast of The Beach Boys 4th of July show in 1985 alongside Jimmy Page, recorded at the National Mall in Washington D.C.","brand":"SOUTHBOUND","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40426208493769,"sku":"463247","price":50.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/7120\/7498\/files\/463247-Product-0-I-638929984802368366.jpg?v=1757466965","url":"https:\/\/www.jbhifi.co.nz\/products\/cd-wilson-brian-the-beach-boys-transmission-imporssible-3cd","provider":"JB Hi-Fi NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}