What a great film. We hear the songs and have no idea about the performers’s lives and put our own spin on the music. Watchting this was pretty tough as he was one screwed up dude, went through some really difficult times. But he is finally a happy man, even though the scars are still very obvious.
He fought depression all his life and still doesn’t seem fully healthy. Some facial tics, somewhat robotic. The scene that he is told that Jack Reilly died a couple years earlier was brutal.
A couple years ago saw a special on how he was haunted by the success and expectations of Pet Sounds. He was obsessed with a follow up album that would be even better. But that obsession drove him over the edge. Some forty years later he finally put on a concert with the songs from that album. It was highly acclaimed and received an Historical Album Award. Amazing story.
He fought depression all his life and still doesn’t seem fully healthy. Some facial tics, somewhat robotic. The scene that he is told that Jack Reilly died a couple years earlier was brutal.
A couple years ago saw a special on how he was haunted by the success and expectations of Pet Sounds. He was obsessed with a follow up album that would be even better. But that obsession drove him over the edge. Some forty years later he finally put on a concert with the songs from that album. It was highly acclaimed and received an Historical Album Award. Amazing story.
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