The entire reason Brian Wilson created Pet Sounds was because of The Beatles’ Rubber Soul.
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The entire reason Brian Wilson created Pet Sounds was because of The Beatles’ Rubber Soul.
(Most ink at the time went toward George Harrison’s post-Beatles solo release, All Things Must Pass, which dropped later that month.)
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“I Wanna Be Your Man.” They played it through with us. Brian put on some nice slide guitar; we turned it into an unmistakably Stones rather than Beatles song. It was clear that we had a hit almost before they’d left the studio.