Remembering Brian Wilson's Performance
By DJ M on May 30th, 2006
In Brian Wilson/B. Boys
LONDON-SE1 Jude Kelly remembers a Brian Wilson concert in February 2005. She recalls: "My early heroes were the Beach Boys, so when Brian Wilson disappeared from view I mourned him as if he were dead. When I took my two teenage children to see him in the Smile concert it was like watching a man on a tightrope crossing a gorge with the entire audience willing him to succeed. Unlike me, my children had no memory of Brian's glory days, but at the end of the concert they jumped to their feet, recognising his greatness. The Festival Hall gave Brian the chance to become what he once was. The downside is that now my children think they discovered him."