Whale Music-writer Paul Quarrington R.I.P.

[rasmus skotte]

The author Paul Quarrington who wrote the novel Whale Music (inspired by Brian Wilson's life) has died. Whale Music was soon made into a movie, directed by Richard J. Lewis in 1994 and was made available on dvd in 2001 by Alliance Atlantis (Canada).

[rasmus skotte]

In fact the dvd came out in 2005 so it should still be possible to track it down.
A quote from the middle of the novel shows the Brian Wilson influence:
You've likely heard stories that what drove me to my present state was the weirdest kind of jealousy as regards the Beatles, that I was embittered by the Sergeant Pepper album, which predated  the release of my so-called concept album, Grin, by a scant two weeks. People like to claim that I was tinkering with the mixes too long, throwing out perfectly good tracks only to start again, that my eccentricity was my undoing, and there is a tiny grain of truth somewhere in there."