Some sad news to pass along from the music world, readers. Melinda Wilson, the wife of songwriting legend and Beach Boy, Brian Wilson, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 77:
Melinda Wilson, who rescued her future husband, the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson, from psychological ruin when they were dating in the 1980s, died on Tuesday at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 77.[…]
The couple’s relationship was portrayed in the 2014 biopic “Love & Mercy.” The film shows Ms. Wilson (played by Elizabeth Banks) meeting Mr. Wilson (played by both John Cusack and Paul Dano) in a Cadillac showroom in Los Angeles, where she was a saleswoman.[…]
The film shows Ms. Wilson helping Mr. Wilson, her boyfriend at the time, navigate a bout of mental illness in the 1980s. That effort, and their courtship, is complicated by the presence of Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti), a psychologist…
