Famous people die all the time. Hardly a day goes by without hearing about another celebrated human's death. Mostly those deaths have little impact upon us but once in a while a death can make us stop in our tracks, giving pause for thought... like Queen Elizabeth II, John F. Kennedy, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Ted Hughes, Hilary Mantel, Tony Benn... Yes, some deaths of famous people seem to matter more than others - at least it feels that way.
Today the world said farewell to the once brilliant songwriter and music producer Brian Wilson - both the heart and the brains of The Beach Boys. I saw them in concert once at The Great Western Express music festival in Lincolnshire. It was Sunday May 28th, 1972 and in the last sunshine of that happy day, as fans threw straw in the air, Brian Wilson and his fellow Californians proved what an awesome sound they could produce without any need for recording studio trickery. Awesome.
He gave the assembled crowd really good vibrations... and now he is no more. He was 82 and it appears that he had been suffering from dementia in his final years. In his memory, please listen:-
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/ZfsjweA
