“When you’re scared, what do you do?” asks the now-elderly Beach Boy Brian Wilson, a man whose mind conjures towering cityscapes of gorgeous pop noise but seems to struggle with its own silence. It’s an utterly sincere question, addressed not to the audience or to the air, but asked honestly of the interviewer; his friend, Rolling Stone’s Jason Fine. Brian is scared and genuinely wants help feeling better – a beat of intimate vulnerability rarely seen in traditional rock docs. It’s one of a handful of genuinely remarkable moments in The Long Promised Road, a documentary which, in some places, struggles to justify its existence in a crowded market of Beach Boy docs, but occasionally reaches compelling heights.
Like the Beatles, Stones and Who, the Beach Boys have an obsessively documented career, the band’s story is too intriguing, too era-defining and too twisty-turny to resist telling every couple of years,...
Like the Beatles, Stones and Who, the Beach Boys have an obsessively documented career, the band’s story is too intriguing, too era-defining and too twisty-turny to resist telling every couple of years,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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