David Leaf (Clip) - The Beach Boys & Career Direction, The Effect of Music Streaming
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David Leaf (Clip) - The Beach Boys & Career Direction, The Effect of Music Streaming
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In this clip from our extended conversation with David Leaf, citing the example of how the advent of music streaming affected Levon Helm, we ask how Brian Wilson himself might have been impacted. In the course of answering that question, David gifted us some bonus gold dust on the way the career of The Beach Boys was guided...or not...
Join us for the full conversation on your favourite podcast platform;https://dec4podcast.com/2025/04/09/david-leaf-smile-the-rise-fall-resurrection-of-brian-wilson/
"...This episode, we’re enormously privileged to welcome award winning filmmaker and author, David Leaf, to discuss his latest book, SMiLE: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Brian Wilson. This celebratory work takes us to the very heart of Brian Wilson’s lost musical masterpiece; its traumatic unravelling in 1967, and the road to a triumphant rebirth in 2004 as an ecstatically received live concert experience and studio album…"
(Post edit: We note with sadness Brian’s passing, (announced) June 11, 2025, aged 82.)