STOCKS AIMLESS IN SLOW TRADING; Business Small on Exchange and Curb -- Erie Issues Are Feature -- Bonds Mixed
Date: 21 June 1942
Brian Wilson Verjaardag, Geboortedatum
Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys and 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, introspective lyrics, and ingenuousness. He was also known for his versatile head voice and falsetto.
Wilson'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. He also produced acts such as the Honeys and American Spring. 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.
Facing lifelong struggles with mental illness, Wilson had a nervous breakdown in late 1964 and soon withdrew from regular concert touring to concentrate on songwriting and recording. In 1966, he produced the band's album Pet Sounds and his first solo credited release, "Caroline, No", as well as their 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. His first professional comeback yielded the almost solo effort The Beach Boys Love You (1977). In the 1980s, he formed a controversial creative and business partnership with his psychologist, Eugene Landy, and relaunched his solo career with the album Brian Wilson (1988). Wilson dissociated from Landy in 1991 and toured regularly from 1999 to 2022. He completed a version of Smile in 2004, earning him his greatest acclaim as a solo artist.
Heralding popular music's recognition as an art form, Wilson's accomplishments as a producer and composer helped initiate an era of unprecedented creative autonomy for label-signed acts. He contributed to the development of many music genres and movements, including the California sound, art pop, psychedelia, chamber pop, progressive music, punk, and sunshine pop. Since the 1980s, his influence has extended to styles such as post-punk, indie rock, emo, dream pop, Shibuya-kei, and chillwave. He received numerous industry awards, including two Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center Honors, as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2000. His life was dramatized in the 2014 biopic Love and Mercy. He died in 2025 of respiratory arrest.
Lees meer...- Verjaardag, Geboortedatum
- zaterdag 20 juni 1942
- Geboorteplaats
- Centinela Hospital Medical Center
- Leeftijd
- 83
- Sterrenbeeld
- ♊
20 juni 1942 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♊. Het was de 170e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 83 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 20 juni 2025, 338 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 20 juni 2026, in 26 dagen. Je hebt 30.654 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 735.696 uur, of ongeveer 44.141.772 minuten, of ongeveer 2.648.506.320 seconden.
Sommige mensen die deze verjaardag delen:
20th of June 1942 News
Nieuws zoals het verscheen op de voorpagina van de New York Times op 20 juni 1942
Barbara Pierce Engaged to Wed; Scoville School Alumna to Be Bride of Ensign B. B. V. Lyon Jr., U. S. N. R.
Date: 21 June 1942
The Not-So-Fair-ways; Not-So-Fair-ways
Date: 21 June 1942
By Charles McD. Puckette
Charles McD
COSTA RICA SEIZES SPIES; Newspapers Warned Not to Publish Movements of Ships
Date: 21 June 1942
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
CR newspapers warned not to pub ship movements
Cape Town Building Drydock
Date: 21 June 1942
300 former Surabaya, N I, drydock workers help to build new drydock, Cape Town
GERMANS REVEAL WORRY OVER UNREST IN EUROPE; Attempts at Conciliation Alternate With Further Acts of Terrorism
Date: 21 June 1942
By GEORGE AXELSSON
George AXELSSON
Growing unrest discussed
LOWER OPERA PRICES DRAW SUBSCRIBERS; Box Office Reports 200 Calls -- Many to Change Seats
Date: 20 June 1942
E R Lewis repts on resulting box office gains