James Strong Show Podcast

Brian Wilson was the face and driving force behind The Beach Boys. He wrote, produced, mixes played and sang most of their songs. By age 22, he was a mental mess. By 24, could not regularly proform on stage. Drugs, alcohol, fast food and mental illness took him out of the public eye for years, sometimes a decade. When you consider that the Beach boys had few hit records after 1966, and were still relevant adds to Wilson's aura.