Uncanny

MIAMI HERALD "Roy A. Sciacca is suing the Beach Boys for the right to sell Brian Wilson's original sheet music for hits such as 'Good Vibrations' and 'Wouldn't it be Nice', said to be worth some $20 million. Sciacca says he's the legal owner of Wilson's handwritten sheet music, which was contained in boxes of 'junk' Sciacca bought for a nominal amount at a liquidation auction of memorabilia held by the Beach Boys' management in the 1980s."

"The band, through its management company Brother Records, alleges the sheet music was stolen and has halted Sciacca's planned auction of the items. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Miami."

Roy A. Sciacca is Secretary of GEM SYSTEMS, INC. and the head of Star Memorabilia.

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EXQUISITELY BORED IN NACOGDOCHES

TENNESSEAN "On a happier note, Beach Boy Brian Wilson may be coming back to live in Brentwood. Brian and his lady were in Valentino's on West End last weekend, and he stopped and chatted with everyone who recognized him. Brian also talked at length with a couple eating next to them."

"'In fact, he talked so much we could hardly eat, but it was a lot of fun,' the gentleman e-mailed me. 'He and his girlfriend are looking at homes in Brentwood.
. . . He loves Nashville and owned a home in Brentwood previously.'"

LA Weekly “Perhaps similar to the way Brian Wilson began to compose circa Pet Sounds, Brion has described his songwriting and film-scoring approach as modular, building pieces with a scrap here and a sod there.“

Long-running group SPARKS released their 20th album this year, HELLO YOUNG LOVERS. It's easily one of the best discs released so far this year. Here's some more views on the album:
STYLUS MAGAZINE
POP MATTERS
BILLBOARD
METACTITIC
If listening to Hello Young Lovers whets your appetite for more SPARKS, you should check out this album:

Kimono My House is one hell of an album; utterly sublime. ALL MUSIC REVIEW. How could you go wrong with an album created by two brothers who look like this?

SPARKS OFFICIAL WEBSITE

KANSAS CITY STAR
AGD’S BB TIMELINE

THE WIRE "[A]ll the stuff that I have, the basic tracks are rock structured, it rocks, but it's only because I came from that. I started as a rock musician so that's always there, and it will always be there as, I don't particularly want to go into a strictly avant garde position or a rock position or anything else. But that will always be the basis of whatever I have. So one or two tracks, like the first track - it rocks, it rocks out, so that'll always be there."

BILL CRIDER “Mike Love's voice isn't what it used to be.”

NEWS TRIBUNE "More than 31 years after Laurie Partridge complained of stomach cramps, left a Spokane school and disappeared without a trace, her family has arranged a $5,000 reward offer to try to learn what happened."

"Detectives staked out a Beach Boys concert to which Partridge’s father had given her tickets but didn’t see her, eventually learning that the tickets had been used but too late to determine by whom."