As 10 revelações mais chocantes do documentário The Beach Boys da Disney +

Aviso! Este artigo contém SPOILERS para o documentário Disney + The Beach Boys (2024).

O documentário musical Disney+ sobre a banda de mesmo nome Os meninos da praiafoi lançado em 24 de maio, dirigido por Frank Marshall e Thom Zimny. Marshall é mais conhecido por seu trabalho com os colegas diretores Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan e muito mais. No entanto, ele recentemente trocou de faixa com um Abelha Gees documentário musical sobre Max, um documentário do Jazz Fest, um filme sobre Carole King e James Taylor, e agora Os meninos da praia. Zimny ​​é famoso por seus muitos filmes-concerto e documentários sobre Bruce Springsteen.

Sua experiência brilha em Os meninos da praiacom imagens de arquivo e entrevistas com os membros sobreviventes da banda, aqueles que trabalharam com eles, críticos e até fãs famosos como Lindsey Buckingham. Apenas três dos cinco membros originais dos Beach Boys ainda estão vivos, com Dennis Wilson e Carl Wilson falecidos. Seu legado continua vivo através do uso das músicas dos Beach Boys em filmes e em seus muitos álbuns. Os integrantes, desde os restantes até os que vieram e se aprimoraram, mostram sua vulnerabilidade e fornecem um olhar aprofundado sobre os altos e baixos dos Beach Boys.

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Brian Wilson teve envolvimento limitado no documentário dos Beach Boys

A tutela de Brian Wilson o impediu de se envolver totalmente

Brian Wilson é sem dúvida o membro mais famoso dos Beach Boys. Os cinco membros originais eram Brian, seus irmãos mais novos, Dennis e Carl, seu primo Mike Love e seu amigo Al Jardine. Como músico, cantor e compositor, Brian Wilson foi o gênio por trás de grande parte da discografia dos Beach Boys. Até mesmo seus colegas, como Paul McCartney, o admiram, como o vocalista dos Beatles compartilhou em seu documentário musical do Hulu. McCartney 3,2,1.

Infelizmente, o tempo não tem sido muito gentil com Wilson, que agora tem 81 anos. Os meninos da praia analisa seu mau estado mental no auge do sucesso da banda e aborda a recente revelação de seu diagnóstico de demência. Felizmente, isso não impediu Wilson de se envolver em Os meninos da praia documentário. Infelizmente, O envolvimento de Brian Wilson no documentário foi limitado por sua demência e pela tutela legal sob a qual sua família o colocou após a morte de sua esposa Melinda em janeiro de 2024.

A conversa em torno das tutelas ganhou popularidade recentemente com Britney Spears, que esteve sob a tutela de 13 anos de seu pai até 2021. Wilson foi colocado pela primeira vez sob tutela na década de 1990 para mantê-lo longe de Eugene Landy, um psiquiatra polêmico que diagnosticou erroneamente Wilson com esquizofrenia. Ele foi transferido para os cuidados de Melinda quando eles se casaram em 1995. Embora suas filhas tenham contado Entretenimento hoje à noite Wilson é “indo muito bem”, muitos fãs, como as lutas e vitórias da música do usuário X, ficaram preocupados quando a notícia foi anunciada pela primeira vez. Esperançosamente, ver Wilson em Os meninos da praia e na estreia ajudou a aliviar algumas preocupações.

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A história dos Beach Boys é uma história de família

Os Beach Boys eram uma banda familiar desde o início

Como mencionado acima, quatro dos cinco membros originais dos Beach Boys eram membros da família. Isso é frequentemente enfatizado pelos membros da família, Jardine, e pelos outros membros que se juntaram ao longo da gestão da banda, incluindo Blondie Chapman. O sul-africano Chapman esteve com a banda de 1972 a 1973 e contribuiu para seus álbuns “Carl and the Passions – ‘So Tough’” e “Holland” e cantou os vocais principais em “Sail On, Sailor”. Em Os meninos da praiaChapman falou sobre seu nervosismo ao entrar na banda, já que é difícil entrar em uma unidade familiar tão unida como eles eram na época.

Seu primeiro empresário foi Murry Wilson, pai dos irmãos Wilson e tio de Love. Ele também fundou sua editora, Sea of ​​Tunes. No início de Os meninos da praiaa história principal é sobre a proximidade deles como família e a música que conseguiram fazer juntos. De forma dolorosa, é também sobre como essa unidade se desfez ao longo do tempo, com tensões entre Murry e a banda e entre Brian e Mike. [personal and business issues. Regardless, at the heart of The Beach Boys is family, for better or worse.

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Al Jardine’s Mom Helped Fund The Beach Boys

Al Jardine’s Mom Sacrificed Her Paycheck To Help The Beach Boys Get Started

Al Jardine, the only original non-family member, is just as big a part of The Beach Boys’ history and legacy. Brian and Al were football teammates in high school, and Al first took notice of what was then a family quartet during a school assembly performance. When Al, a guitarist, bumped into Brian after graduation, Brian introduced him to the rest of the band, and The Beach Boys went from a quartet to a quintet.

As Al put it in the documentary, “We all just clicked. We were like notes on a keyboard.” The first time they got together as a band to rehearse, Murry and Audree Wilson went to Mexico City on business and left them $200. When the money immediately ran out, and they still hadn’t rented instruments, Al asked his mom, Virginia, to help them.

To convince her, The Beach Boys auditioned for her with one of their favorite songs, the Four Freshmen’s acapella arrangement of “Their Hearts Were Full of Spring.” Virginia Jardine gave them $300 for the instruments. When the Wilson parents returned about three weeks later, they were officially a band.

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Murry Wilson Sold The Beach Boys’ Royalties Without Their Permission

Murry Wilson Betrayed His Family & The Band

Murry Wilson might have helped get The Beach Boys started, but The Beach Boys documentary is equally appreciative and resentful of him, as are the band members themselves. In 1964, he was dismissed as their manager for being overbearing and disruptive, but he retained their publishing rights until 1969. That year, Murry Wilson sold the extremely valuable Beach Boys’ catalog to Irving Almo Music for $700,000, about $5.82 million adjusted for inflation in 2023.

To make matters worse, he didn’t consult the band members, showing a lack of care for his family’s feelings. The Beach Boys felt betrayed by their father, uncle, and former manager. It also put them in a difficult position, as they didn’t want to sue their family member, but the sale led to numerous following his 1973 death and hurt the family’s bond deeply.

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Brian Wilson Destroyed The Smile Tapes

Brian Wilson Had Creative Differences With His Bandmates

The story of “Smile Tapes” is one of The Beach Boys’ most infamous. The group reached a new level of success and recognition with the release of what’s commonly regarded as The Beach Boys’ best album, 1966’s “Pet Sounds.” Despite initial middling success in the United States, it was a big hit in the United Kingdom and has since inspired countless performers.

Thus, it was difficult to follow up. Between “Pet Sounds” and 1967’s “Smiley Smile,” their record label released two compilation albums. During that time, The Beach Boys recorded the “Smile Tapes” over a painstakingly long year. When Brian Wilson became overly obsessed with its production and developing a new sound, his bandmates outnumbered him with their desire to do something different quickly. Wilson scrapped most of the “Smile Tapes,” and the unsuccessful “Smiley Smile” was recorded over 6 weeks in his home studio.

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The Beach Boys Influenced Janelle Monáe

Janelle Monáe Is Featured In The Beach Boys’ Documentary

One of the performers inspired by “Pet Sounds” and The Beach Boys’ music was Janelle Monáe. Monáe has often spoken about what it was like having Prince as a mentor, and she’s carried on his legacy through her own music and style. Yet, The Beach Boys revealed he wasn’t the only major influence on Monáe, who said she got into the band and their famous harmonies when she started songwriting.

Janelle Monáe was born on December 1, 1985, almost 20 years after “Pet Sounds” was released. Still, The Beach Boys’ music reached her and many others, including OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, who was born on June 26, 1979. The influence The Beach Boys had on Monáe and Tedder is further evidence of how powerful and enduring “Pet Sounds” and The Beach Boys’ music remains, decades after it was initially released.

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The Beach Boys Were Connected To The Manson Murders

Dennis Wilson Worked With Charles Manson

One of the most shocking reveals in The Beach Boys documentary was related to Charles Manson, the former cult leader of the Manson Family. Though The Beach Boys’ connection to Manson isn’t a secret, many who weren’t around at the time of the murders may have been unaware before watching the documentary. Dennis Wilson had formed a friendship with Manson, whom he referred to as a “guru,” but the other members kept their distance.

Dennis and Manson even wrote a song together for The Beach Boys that Dennis reworked and renamed “Never Learn Not to Love.” Manson wanted Dennis to introduce him to Beach Boys’ producer Terry Melcher, but Melcher wouldn’t sign him. Eventually, Dennis and Melcher abandoned Manson. Looking for revenge, Manson went to Melcher’s house in August 1969, but Melcher had already sold it, and it was being leased to director Roman Polanski and his wife, actress Sharon Tate.

When they didn’t find Melcher there, the Manson Family killed five people at the house, including Sharon Tate who was eight months pregnant. This weighed heavily on Dennis Wilson for years, as he felt a sense of responsibility for the murders and began abusing substances even more. Though it wasn’t fully touched on in The Beach Boys, Dennis died by drowning while intoxicated in December 1983.

3

The Beach Boys Wanted To Change Their Name

The Beach Boys Believed Their Name Was Holding Them Back

The 1960s counterculture movement growing in the United States quickly left The Beach Boys feeling out of place. They’d earned a name for themselves as the cute, wholesome California surfer boys next door. Unlike their British peer/rival The Beatles, who transitioned with the changing times thanks to songs like “Come Together” and “Revolution 1,” The Beach Boys had a harder time. This isn’t to say they didn’t eventually get there, with songs like “It’s About Time,” but they were far and few between.

In The Beach Boys documentary, members revealed they felt they’d outgrown their name. After all, they were grown men going by “boys.” They were teenagers when they first started recording in 1961, but as the times were changing, so were they. At one point, they wanted to change their name to just “Beach,” but they didn’t end up going through with it.

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Mike Love Barely Talks To Brian Wilson

The Cousins Had A Falling Out When Mike Sued Brian

For many, the reveal in The Beach Boys that Brian Wilson and Mike Love barely talk to each other wasn’t too surprising. Like many famous bands, The Beach Boys had their falling outs. They just had the unfortunate problem of that fallout occurring between family members. With their complicated family dynamic and Murry Wilson’s premature death at 55 in 1973, they were never able to sue him for selling their catalog without permission.

Much of the credit for The Beach Boys’ hits went to Brian Wilson, even when other members were involved. In the 1990s, Love sued Brian for writing credits on 35 songs, contributing to the bitter relationship between the cousins. Many Beach Boys fans resent Love for this and other conflicts. Yet, The Beach Boys saw Love break down into tears when he spoke about his love for his cousin and their lack of a relationship. The documentary’s ending saw the band reunite, with Love and Wilson finally together again.

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The Beach Boys Weren’t About Sex, Drugs & Rock & Roll

The Beach Boys Documentary Was About The Music & Family

Many music documentaries about bands, especially rock bands, are centered around “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Mötley Crüe, and more were famous for making this their image. Bands were thought to be so invested in this lifestyle that it was even the basis of films like Almost Famous and the biopic about Ian Dury, aptly titled Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Yet, this wasn’t what The Beach Boys, or The Beach Boys documentary, was about.

That isn’t to say there wasn’t sex, drugs, and rock and roll involved in their history. Multiple members had addiction issues, but they weren’t living the lifestyle of flaunting their wealth, women, and drug use. While The Beach Boys may leave certain things out, the Disney+ documentary delves into their issues as a band without glorifying certain behaviors or focusing too much on their afflictions.

Sources: Entertainment Tonight, Katie Couric Media, Billboard