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BRIAN WILSONBrian Wilson’s songwriting genius and the music of the Beach Boys captured the world in the 1960s with hits like "California Girls," "Good Vibrations" and "Surfin’ USA." At 23, Wilson took LSD, heavily promoted by psychiatrists and psychologists to the entertainment industry, which changed his life for the worse. Clinical psychologist Eugene Landy, who was contracted to help Wilson, demanded that he have "total therapeutic authority over Wilson and his environment"—at a cost of $400,000 a year. Two years later, when Landy demanded even more money, a desperate Carl Wilson gave away 25% of Brian’s royalties to cover the cost of continuing the program. Wilson was prescribed addictive tranquilizers. When a long-time friend of Wilson alerted the authorities to Landy’s treatment and extortion methods, the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance charged Landy with ethical and license code violations. Landy gave up his license to practice. Brian Wilson beat the odds and returned to writing and recording. |
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