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7. Dennis Wilson
Forget his brother Brian or his weird cousin Mike, Dennis Wilson was the real Beach Boy. He was only one who surfed, he drove convertibles, got the pretty girls and smashed around on the drums at the back while everyone focused on the perfect harmonies that were front and centre. During one of the many internal struggles within The Beach Boys in the seventies, Dennis put together a collection of songs hed been writing and became the first one of the group to put out a really wonderful solo album. With an album cover where he looks like the most beautiful drifter/messiah- a handsome Manson- Pacific Ocean Blue is an assortment of moody, punch drunk ballads that are made of granite. With a grizzled voice that sound like its been soaked in scotch and left out in the California sun, Dennis songs are the antithesis of any of The Beach Boys hit singles. He sounds like hes been emotionally sandblasted. Unfortunately thats probably because he was. Just a few years later after years of struggling with alcohol and heroin addictions, with a problematic love life and a live fast, die young attitude; Dennis Wilson drowned while drunk in the very ocean he romanticised.
