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♪ GET AROUND GET AROUND ♪
♪ I GET AROUND ♪
>>> THAT'S THE SOUND THAT TOOK
THE BEACH BOYS TO THE TOP
OF THE CHARTS.
AND BRIAN WILSON'S MUSICAL
GENIUS WAS WHAT KEPT THEM THERE.
BUT THE MUSIC FADED FOR BRIAN,
FADED INTO A MULTIDECADE HAZE
OF DRUGS AND DEPRESSION.
BRIAN WILSON IS BACK NOW,
WITH A NEW FAMILY AND A NEW
ALBUM AND A SOUND THAT MAY BRING
BACK SOME MEMORIES, IN THIS
"ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT COVER
STORY."
♪♪♪
>> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO
PEOPLE WHO EXPECT THE OLD BRIAN
WILSON?
>> THE OLD BRIAN WILSON IS GONE.
THAERSZ A NEW BRIAN WILSON BACK.
♪ I'M MAKING REAL GOOD BREAD ♪
>> Reporter: HIS VOICE AND
MELODIES TURNED THE BEACH BOYS
INTO A LEGEND.
HIS LIFE OFFSTAGE WAS IN SHARP
CONTRAST TO HIS BAND'S WHOLESOME
IMAGE.
>> I REMEMBER WHEN I WOKE UP AND
I GO, THIS CAN'T GO ON ANYMORE.
THIS KIND OF STUFF CANNOT GO
ONFULLYMORE.
I'VE GOT TO HAVE MY WIFE FIND A
DOCTOR FOR ME.
BECAUSE I'M DYING.
I KNEW I WAS DYING BECAUSE I
COULD FEEL PAINS IN MY HEART.
>> Reporter: NOW, AFTER WHAT
BRIAN CLAIMS ARE NEARLY THREE
DECADES OF SOBRIETY COMES HIS
FIRST SOLO EFFORT IN TEN YEARS
ENTITLED "IMAGINATION."
HE OPENED UP TO LISA CANNING
ABOUT THE DARK DAYS HE LEFT
BEHIND.
>> HOW MANY YEARS DID YOU SPEND
BEING HIGH?
>> FROM 1965 TO 1970.
>> DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU MISSED A
LOT OF THINGS IN YOUR LIFE?
>> OH, YEAH.
I MISSED MANY THINGS.
I MISSED HAPPINESS FOR A WHILE.
♪♪
>> Reporter: HE ALSO MISSED THE
CHILDHOOD OF DAUGHTERS CARNEY
AND WENDY WHO WENT ON TO THEIR
OWN SUCCESS AS RECORDING ARTISTS
AS PART OF WILSON PHILLIPS.
>> I WASN'T ABLE TO CONCENTRATE
VERY MUCH ON MY KIDS BECAUSE OF
MY GROUP AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE
FACT THAT I WAS ON DRUGS, TAKING
DRUGS.
I WASN'T ABLE TO REALLY PAY
ATTENTION TO THEM, LIKE I SHOULD
HAVE.
SO I GOOFED.
I WAS A BAD DAD.
>> Reporter: BUT THREE YEARS AGO
HE GOT ANOTHER CHANCE AT FAMILY
LIFE WHEN HE MARRIED HIS SECOND
WIFE, MELINDA, THEY HAVE TWO
ADOPTED DAUGHTERS.
>> MY WIFE AND MY BABIES ARE
GREAT INSPIRATION TO ME, YOU
KNOW.
TO MAKE THIS ALBUM.
♪ GOT A LETTER FROM A LONG LOST
COUSIN OF MINE ♪
>> Reporter: EVEN THESE HAPPIER
TIMES HAVE BEEN OVERSHADOWED BY
TRAGEDY.
BRIAN'S LAST LIVING BROTHER,
CARL, DIED FIVE MONTHS AGO AFTER
LOSING A BATTLE WITH LUNG
CANCER.
>> DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU TOLD
HIM BEFORE HE LEFT?
>> YEAH, I TOLD HIM I LOVED HIM
VERY MUCH AND THAT'S THE LAST
THING I SAID TO HIM THAT I
REMEMBER.
I SAID, I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH.
AND THAT WAS IT.
AND THEN HE DIED.
ñ( Reporter: THE LOSS INSPIRED A
SONG ON BRIAN'S NEW ALBUM.
WIFTFUL BALLAD, "LAY DOWN
BURDEN."
♪♪ LAY ME DOWN
LAY ME DOWN ♪
>> I SURVIVED MY WHOLE FAMILY.
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT.
I'M THE LAST OF THE WILSONS.
>> Reporter: WITH CARL GONE, HE
SAYS THE BEACH BOYS MAY NEVER
PERFORM TOGETHER AGAIN, BUT HE
WILL KEEP WRITING NEW MATERIAL.
MAKING GOOD VIBRATIONS FOR YEARS
TO COME.
>> YOU'RE A SURVIVOR.
>> YEAH, OH, FOR SURE.
>> WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM?
>> BECAUSE MY LAST NAME, WILL,
WILSON.
I HAVE THE WILL DO LIVE, THE
WILL TO SUCCEED.
BOOM!
>> BRIAN WILSON'S "IMAGINATION"
IS IN STORES NOW.
AND ALL THOSE GREAT BEACH BOYS
CLASSICS ARE ON THE CD
"PERFECT HARMONY"
FROM CAPITOL RECORDS.
IT'S IN STORES TOO.