At My Piano Brian Wilson

• Brian Wilson (b. 1942):
• 1 God Only Knows 03:49
• 2 In My Room 03:07
• 3 Don't Worry Baby 03:39
• 4 California Girls 03:16
• 5 The Warmth Of The Sun 03:27
• 6 Wouldn't It Be Nice 02:56
• 7 You Still Believe in Me 02:33
• 8 I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times 03:49
• 9 Sketches Of Smile 03:39
• 10 Surfs Up 04:05
• 11 Friends 03:18
• 12 Till I Die 02:14
• 13 Love And Mercy 02:42
• 14 Mt Vernon Farewell 01:14
• 15 Good Vibrations 04:16
• Total Runtime 48:04

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Eine Sammlung beliebter Hits von Brian Wilson und den Beach Boys, gespielt von Brian am Solo-Piano.

Brian Wilson über das Album: "Wir hatten ein Klavier in unserem Wohnzimmer und seit ich 12 Jahre alt war, habe ich jeden Tag darauf gespielt. Ich hatte nie Unterricht, ich war ein kompletter Autodidakt. Ich kann gar nicht ausdrücken, wie sehr das Klavier in meinem Leben eine wichtige Rolle gespielt hat. Es hat mir Trost, Freude und Sicherheit gegeben. Es hat sowohl meine Kreativität als auch meinen Wettbewerbsgeist beflügelt.

Ich spiele es, wenn ich glücklich oder traurig bin. Ich liebe es, für andere zu spielen, und ich liebe es, allein zu spielen, wenn niemand zuhört. Ehrlich gesagt, das Klavier und die Musik, die ich darauf mache, haben mir wahrscheinlich das Leben gerettet."

Ikone und Wegbereiter - Brian Wilson führte als Gründungsmitglied der Beach Boys eine musikalische Revolution an. Die Band, die seit 1961 den Sound von Kalifornien, Surfen und Sonnenschein verkörpert.

Jetzt kehrt Brian, eine wahre Musiklegende, zu seinem reichen Katalog an Hits zurück und spielt diese historisch populären Songs in ihrer reinsten Form - nur Brian, allein mit seinem Klavier.

At My Piano ist eine zutiefst entspannende Sammlung denkwürdiger Songs, darunter God Only Knows, Wouldn't it Be Nice, California Girls, Good Vibrations und viele mehr, vorgetragen mit der klaren Klarheit, die eine Solokomposition am Klavier schafft. Ein perfektes Album für Sonnenuntergänge und goldene Tage.

Brian Wilson, Klavier

Brian Wilson
is arguably the greatest American composer of popular music in the rock era. Born and raised in Hawthorne, CA, Wilson formed the Beach Boys -- with his two younger brothers, cousin Mike Love, and school friend Alan Jardine -- and they became the most successful American rock band in history by performing his songs, which initially combined the rock urgency of Chuck Berry with the harmonies of the Four Freshmen. Wilson's musical imagination expanded during the '60s to the point of such remarkable works as 'Good Vibrations,' a chart-topping Beach Boys single of 1966. Wilson retreated from his dominance of the Beach Boys after 1967, as their popularity declined. He made sporadic contributions to their records, returning only briefly as a songwriter and producer in the mid-'70s.

Wilson issued a debut solo album in 1988, with a promising lead single 'Love and Mercy,' but a pop crossover proved elusive; ironically, the Beach Boys had concurrently recorded their own comeback around the same time, and took 'Kokomo' to the top of the charts. Wilson's second album, Sweet Insanity, was rejected by Sire, but in 1995, he reunited with his mid-'60s collaborator Van Dyke Parks for Orange Crate Art. That same year, Wilson was the subject of a documentary feature, I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, which also appeared as a soundtrack album. Following in 1998 was Imagination, which included several throwbacks to lush Beach Boys productions, but failed to entice a wide commercial audience.

Although Wilson was never a standout as a live performer, he began touring, and promptly released a pair of live titles: Live at the Roxy Theatre (2000) and Pet Sounds Live (2002). Unfortunately, his cobbled studio follow-up, 2004's Gettin' in Over My Head, exhibited the same foibles as Imagination. Also, it was overshadowed by Wilson's preparation of the legendary Beach Boys record SMiLE for its live debut and a new studio recording. He debuted the new SMiLE at the Royal Festival Hall in London on February 20, 2004, and recorded it in the studio that April. Both the live and studio versions earned rapturous reviews, and Wilson then launched a full world tour of SMiLE. The seasonal effort What I Really Want for Christmas followed in October 2005.

Then, Wilson began preparing another thematic work to follow on from SMiLE after he was commissioned by London's Southbank Centre. By late 2007, he had written and premiered That Lucky Old Sun -- based on the American vocal standard and including the participation of his SMiLE band as well as Van Dyke Parks -- at the Royal Festival Hall. Recordings quickly followed, and in September 2007, the album was released worldwide.

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