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Brian Wilson<\/a> was never in the business of creating mere background music or advertising jingles. <\/p>\n Throughout his illustrious career, the Beach Boys songwriter seemed to speak directly to the souls of his legions of listeners, and even now, his material seems to have a unique power of finding you when you need it most. For Wilson himself, though, it was The Rolling Stones who served that purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n Despite the band\u2019s sparkly, sun-soaked image, typified by surfboards and matching shirts, The Beach Boys was rarely a harmonious band to be in. During their early years, for example, the group was overshadowed by the abusive tendencies of Wilson\u2019s father, and The Beach Boys\u2019 manager, Murry Wilson. Even when they had rid themselves of his grasp, though, the band was still plagued by vicious infighting and longstanding feuds<\/a> stretching across multiple decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, Wilson quickly found that the intense pressure of being in a touring group was too much to handle, and his decision to become a studio-only member of the band from 1964 onwards caused a pretty unavoidable chasm between the songwriter and the rest of the band. To top it all off, Wilson\u2019s studio experiments were spurred on by LSD, a drug which he claimed caused permanent damage to his mental health.<\/p>\n That brief encounter with LSD also seemed to predict his later struggles with drug addiction, used to self-medicate his mental health struggles and deal with the unbearable pressure of being a Beach Boy. By the mid-1970s, then, Wilson was in an incredibly tough spot, becoming a borderline recluse following the death of his father in 1973, neglecting both his musical career and his personal relationships \u2013 namely, his then-wife, Marilyn Rovell.<\/p>\n Music has a way of soundtracking your struggles, but it was one often underappreciated effort by the kings of anarchic rock and roll rebellion, The Rolling Stones, that snapped Wilson out of that slump. <\/p>\n \u201cI was just drinking a lot of liquor, a lot of booze. I was really laying in the gutter,\u201d the songwriter recalled of that period in his life. \u201cI was on the street without a house because my wife and I had a big argument. And I went out and would bum cigarettes off people, I would drink here, and I would get drunk maybe later that night.\u201d <\/p>\n