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The aim of Equinox’s Icons of Pop Music series is to offer undergraduates and the general reader “a critical profile of a key figure or group in Twentieth-century pop music” (eds. Halstead and Laing). Like Praeger’s singer-songwriter series, Equinox’s focus is on the critical interpretation of each artist’s creative output, but unlike Praeger’s chronological approach, Equinox’s focus is thematic. This is represented in the latest in the series, Kirk Curnutt’s well-researched study of The Beach Boys’ songwriter and producer Brian Wilson. By way of introduction, Curnutt offers an historical overview exploring the reasons behind Wilson’s moniker of ‘troubled genius’ (see 1-5,11), as well as his personal response as a young Beach Boys fan, contemporary responses including that of the Beatles and an overview of published literature such as Jules Siegel’s “template-setting essay” (12) of 1966 ‘Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!’. The final chapter, “‘I’m the Pied Piper’: The Peculiar Appeal of Brian Wilson”, addresses the issue of Wilson’s ‘narrative iconicity’ post the abandoned Smile project (1966-67) including the rise of ‘indie’ groups “evoking the sound of Smile” (137). In many ways both framing chapters summarise much of what has already been written by other writers such as Leaf (1978), Priore (2005), and Fusilli (2005).

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