{"id":29761,"date":"2024-06-20T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-20-1942-the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-is-born\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T18:04:20","slug":"on-this-day-june-20-1942-the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-20-1942-the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, June 20, 1942: The Beach Boys\u2019 Brian Wilson is born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-20\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, June 20, 1942 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Brian Wilson\u00a0<\/strong>was born in Inglewood, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 1961, he co-founded\u00a0<strong>The Beach Boys\u00a0<\/strong>and changed the face of popular music with his gift for musical harmonies and vocal arrangements. The band had a string of top-40 hits, including \u201cI Get Around,&#8221; \u201cHelp Me Rhonda\u201d and &#8220;Good Vibrations,&#8221; which all went to number one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After a nervous breakdown in 1964, Wilson stopped touring with the band, but did go on to record what he considered \u201cprobably the best album I ever did\u201d: 1966\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Pet Sounds<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Wilson is a two-time Grammy winner and was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Beach Boys in 1988. In 2000 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2024, Wilson was placed under a conservatorship after a doctor diagnosed him with a \u201cmajor neurocognitive disorder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The life and career of The Beach Boys was recently the subject of a new documentary, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Beach Boys<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, now\u00a0streaming on Disney+.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, June 20, 1942 &#8230; Brian Wilson\u00a0was born in Inglewood, California. In 1961, he co-founded\u00a0The Beach Boys\u00a0and changed the face of popular music with his gift for musical harmonies and vocal arrangements. The band had a string of top-40 hits, including \u201cI Get Around,&#8221; \u201cHelp Me Rhonda\u201d and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-june-20-1942-the-beach-boys-brian-wilson-is-born\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}