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It\u2019s always strange looking at how Brian Wilson<\/a> dealt with being a rock and roll legend.\u00a0<\/p>\n He singlehandedly changed the way that most people thought about harmony and gave sophisticated pop music a place on the charts, and yet he still carried himself like one of the most humble men in the music industry. He was simply happy knowing that a lot of people enjoyed what he did, but even he knew that there was no sense in him trying to compete with his idols.<\/p>\n Even if he was incredibly humble, what Wilson did on those early Beach Boys records is musically immaculate. It\u2019s easy to look at the tracks as a more primitive version of pop music, but even if you\u2019re not down on the surf songs and odes to classic cars, it\u2019s hard to think of any note being out of place on any of those classic hits, either. What Wilson was doing was building classics from the ground up, but that only came from years of practice.<\/p>\n Granted, a lot of what Wilson did came from natural talent, but there\u2019s almost a classical approach to the way that he came up with his melodies. If you take all of the instruments off of \u2018God Only Knows\u2019<\/a> and keep the vocals, it almost feels like a choral symphony all on its own, so it\u2019s not out of the ordinary for him to be compared to people like Mozart. It sounds pretentious on the surface, but he was the closest thing to a classical genius as the rock world had.<\/p>\n But the finer forms of music were only a small part of what Wilson loved. He had kept his ears open to everyone from Elton John to The Beatles whenever working on his own music, and even when he was a kid, he was also being shaped by the music that he was hearing from Broadway shows as well.<\/p>\n While showtunes were far from the coolest thing in the world by rock and roll standards, it\u2019s not out of the ordinary, either. The Beatles had toyed around with showtunes when they were cutting their teeth before making it big, and even by those standards, George Gershwin may as well have been a musical god. \u2018Embraceable You\u2019 had some of the most interesting jazzy chord changes from the time, and there\u2019s no way that anyone that has come anywhere close to a theatre hasn\u2019t heard at least one version of \u2018Summertime\u2019.<\/p>\n