The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and the Smiths all benefited from business-minded members, so why don’t responsible rockstars ever get their dues?
Music celebrates the wild ones. It hails the people who put themselves out there in pursuit of their art. It eulogises the addicts, the ill, the unpredictable, the ones in whom the flame burns bright. It tends not to lavish such affection on those who keep the fire alight, doing the grunt work of going outside to chop up the logs, drying them out and putting them on the fire to feed the flames.
Hence the lack of excitement about the Beach Boys’ Mike Love announcing his solo record Unleash the Love. Admittedly, it’s hard to get enthusiastic about an album that includes a rerecording of Do It Again featuring former ER star John Stamos on drums, but lack of excitement turned into open mockery on social media, where music writers rolled their eyes at the latest hubristic gesture from the man who is rumoured to have told Brian Wilson, as he stretched his artistic wings in the 1960s: “Don’t fuck with the formula.”
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