Julie Burchill Julie Burchill

Falling out with Love

Two band members have produced very different memoirs. The genius Brian Wilson is touchingly modest, while the ill-named Mike Love appears a bullying braggart

issue 26 November 2016

  • Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beachboy

    Mike Love

    Faber, pp. 448

  • I Am Brian Wilson: The Genius Behind the Beach Boys

    Brian Wilson

    Coronet, pp. 320

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