“Farewell, Maestro”: Springsteen and Billie Joe Salutano Brian Wilson

Without Brian Wilson, we would not have “racing in the street”. To say it is the author of the song, none other than Bruce Springsteen, who with a post on Instagram greets the disappearance of the founder of the beach boys with pain. “It was the musically inventive voice of all pop, with an over -ntering ear for harmony. It was also the visionary leader of the largest American band, the beach boys” writes the boss. “Listen to ‘Summer’s Gone’ from the latest Beach Boys album, ‘That’s Why Good Made The Radio, and cry”.

“Farewell, master. Nothing but love and a lasting debt by all of us on the E Street” concludes Springsteen, who already in 2021, in the documentary “Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road” he said: “There is no larger world created in the rock and roll of that of the Beach Boys. That level of music skills, I don’t think nobody has reached it”.

Bruce is not the only one to have shared his memory. Elton John, Carole King, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney, also to name a few. Then there are those who, like Billie Joe Armstrong, have chosen to transform the memory into music. The guitarist and singer of the Green Day shared his interpretation of “I Get Around” on Instagram, a few hours after the news of Wilson’s death.

“Thanks Brian Wilson,” writes Armstrong. “I recorded one Cover of ‘I Get Around’ A few years ago … I have never had the opportunity to share it. One of my absolute favorite songs “. Originally published in May 1964 as the only single from the sixth album of the Beach Boys,” All Summer Long “,” I Get Around “would have become the group’s first song to reach the first place in Hot 100, a company that would repeat two more times in the 1960s, thanks to” Help Me, Rhonda “and” Good Vibrations “.