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Yesterday I was watching this really interesting documentary about the 40 songs in John Lennon's portable jukebox. I've heard Brian mention his jukebox before, but besides Be My Baby, do we know anything else that he had in it?

And knowing how Brian can mix up Surf City/Surf's Up...

39 other copies of Be My Baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LTf2MehizWI#t=45s

Surf's Up is a masterpiece worthy of classical legacy

Surf City is a dated surf song which in these days would come off as pretty 'gay' and uninteresting. Imo it has aged worse than any prominent Beach Boys surf song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LTf2MehizWI#t=45s

I remember hearing about an interview where Brian shows some guy his record collection in the 70s and talks about Bohemian Rhapsody, anyone have a link to that?

Frank Sinatra?

I thought I saw in an interview that Brian liked "Stranger's In The Night".

I would also add "Let It Be" to the list.

Maybe he was mixed up, but it would be really cool if Brian liked Bohemian Rhapsody.

Don't have the link handy, but it was definitely Bohemian Rhapsody

Surf's Up is a masterpiece worthy of classical legacy

Surf City is a dated surf song which in these days would come off as pretty 'gay' and uninteresting. Imo it has aged worse than any prominent Beach Boys surf song.

Surf's Up is a masterpiece worthy of classical legacy

Surf City is a dated surf song which in these days would come off as pretty 'gay' and uninteresting. Imo it has aged worse than any prominent Beach Boys surf song.

What is gay about two girls for every guy?

Searching Google books, I found this:

"Brian Wilson, the compositional mastermind of The Beach Boys, told Creem magazine's Richard Cromelin in the October 1976 issue that "Bohemian Rhapsody" was, "to me, a fulfillment of artistic music. I studied the record, I became very ..."

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/article.html?ArticleID=6506

in a 1988 interview with Pete Fornatele, the five records he'd keep for his own jukebox:

Be my baby
Da doo ron ron
Good Vibrations
Macarthur Park
and...
Spooky by the Classics Four... "I thought that was a great record!"

The Queen reference is in Richard Cromelin's piece for Sounds, Aug 7 1976:  Brian says "Like for instance there's a group called Queen.  They made a record, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which to me was a fulfillment and an answer to a teenage prayer, of artistic music...I studied the record.  I became very familiar with it, and I'm very very fond of it and I'm scared of it at the same time.  Oh, it's the most competitive thing that's come along in ages! It's just totally amazing what people do when they lose their noggins, when they lose their heads and they go in there and freak...That's what Queen did.  They had enough of what was happening, and by God they went in and did their thing and stomped! And I appreciate that and I'm very fond of it."   Clearly in 1975 Brian was doing very little and probably listened to Rodney , Jim Pewter and other DJ's every day.  By the way-I had the privilege of interviewing Chip Rachlin for my book and he told me that he took Dennis to see Queen in 1975 or 76 and that Dennis insisted on going backstage afterwards and meeting them.

That is really cool. Do you have the rest of the quote? The link requires a subscription.

and in the meantime, I posted the whole article in the magazine section at Media.

AHA! I found this:




and this


Using Google seems to be a more reliable way of searching the SS archives than using the search function on the forum, to be honest.

The Queen reference is in Richard Cromelin's piece for Sounds, Aug 7 1976:  Brian says "Like for instance there's a group called Queen.  They made a record, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' which to me was a fulfillment and an answer to a teenage prayer, of artistic music...I studied the record.  I became very familiar with it, and I'm very very fond of it and I'm scared of it at the same time.  Oh, it's the most competitive thing that's come along in ages! It's just totally amazing what people do when they lose their noggins, when they lose their heads and they go in there and freak...That's what Queen did.  They had enough of what was happening, and by God they went in and did their thing and stomped! And I appreciate that and I'm very fond of it."   Clearly in 1975 Brian was doing very little and probably listened to Rodney , Jim Pewter and other DJ's every day.  By the way-I had the privilege of interviewing Chip Rachlin for my book and he told me that he took Dennis to see Queen in 1975 or 76 and that Dennis insisted on going backstage afterwards and meeting them.