Brian Wilson announces autobiography 'I Am Brian Wilson'

With the former Beach Boy due to embark on his final world tour later this year, Brian Wilson has now unveiled his plans to release an autobiography as well.

The memoir 'I Am Brian Wilson' is set for release on the 11th October, a few months after Wilson places his final live shows to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the classic Beach Boys album 'Pet Sounds'.

You can check out the full list of dates again below, along with an extract taken from the forthcoming book.

“My life has been written about over and over again, and that’s mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they’ll get it right and sometimes they’ll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don’t like discussing them. Sometimes I don’t even like remembering them. But as I get older, the shape of that pain has changed. Sometimes memories come back to me when I least expect them. Maybe that’s the only way it works when you’ve lived the life I’ve lived: starting a band with my brothers that was managed by my father, watching my father become difficult and then impossible, watching myself become difficult and then impossible, watching women I loved come and go, watching children come into the world, watching my brothers get older, watching them pass out of the world. Some of those things shaped me. Others scarred me. Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference. When I watched my father fly into a rage and take swings at me and my brothers, was that shaping or scarring? When we watched him grow frustrated with his day job and take solace in music, was that shaping or scarring? Those are all memories but I can’t get to them all at once. I’ve had a whole lifetime to take them in. Now I have a whole book to put them out there.”

Brian Wilson UK Tour Dates:
15/05 - Bristol, Colston Hall
17/05 - Birmingham, Symphony Hall
18/05 - Cardiff, St. David’s Hall
20-22/05 - London, Palladium
24/05 - Manchester, 02 Apollo
26/05 - Edinburgh, Usher Hall
27/05 - Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall
29/05 - Gateshead, Sage
31/05 - Liverpool, Philharmonic Hall
01/06 - Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall

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