All this work has been done. God only knows, Brian Wilson Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. “We’ve kind of merged. In fact, he went so far as to enter the recording studio and coproduce one of the tracks, “Rio Grande,” something Waronker (known for producing Randy Newman and Rickie Lee Jones) hadn’t done in five years. Cannot annotate a non-flat selection. “The program” began in January of 1983. “But there are also what I call the ‘hamburger songs. Sire Records head Seymour Stein impulsively decided to sign Wilson after meeting him backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinner in January of 1987. He gets what he wants. Dropping his robe, he eases his body into the warm water. Three briefcases sit next to the piano: they contain rough piano-vocal demos of close to 170 mostly unrecorded songs that Wilson has written over the years. A few days later, while looking at some old photos of himself in his days as a 300-pound blob, he will say, “I was ready for death. He came in, rescued an out-of-proportion situation and brought it together. Is Wilson really back? Getting used to yourself is hard. “I’m going to get out,” Brian says abruptly. “Titelman and I were always nose to nose, pushing, pushing, pushing,” he says. If you should ever leave me Russ has to be congratulated for having the balls to stand up to Brian and Dr. Landy.”, When Titelman entered the picture, Brian had already been working with Paley in California for several months. If you could put a value on art — I don’t think you can, but if you could — it would be much more than $2 or $1.50 or whatever they charge for records. God only knows what I'd be without you He allegedly gave her illicit drugs and forced her to have sex with him.) I’m negatively programmed to think that each day is a bummer.”. A little later, upstairs in Landy’s private office, Landy asked Brian about the papers he’d just signed. “I can do music. “But I can’t. Over the next six years Brian regressed, so Landy was called in again at the end of 1982. Recently, when he arrived at the Los Angeles airport and found that Warner Bros. had sent a town car instead of a stretch limo, he exploded, fuming for twenty minutes. Sign up for our newsletter. He is prone to loud arguments and hysterical shouting matches. With the consent of Brian’s family, the Beach Boys and their management, he was whisked off to Kailua-Kona, a secluded area in Hawaii. Another Brian is a teenager — sometimes stubborn and moody, other times lazy or bored — who talks in a kind of boyishly appealing Sixties teenage slang: “I had to, man,” he’ll say about an accomplishment. But associates say that he drops the charm once he’s gotten what he wants. Jesus! “Being called a musical genius,” he says, quite rationally, “was a cross to bear. But once they’re together, you go, ‘Hey, yeah!’ You feel good. “I don’t care if Warner Bros, makes one dollar,” says Waronker.