Later Years
In 1966, Wilson began managing The Sunrays, composed of five students who attended Hollywood Professional High School. The Sunrays earned some media attention and a bit of airplay for their initial singles, but they never broke in the Top 40.
In 1969, Wilson sold The Beach Boys' publishing company, Sea of Tunes against the group's wishes. Brian Wilson suggested that his signature was forged by his father on several related business documents, making the sale illegal.
Even after Wilson's formal business relationship with the Beach Boys ended, he continued to take an active interest in the group's career, and to give them advice (both solicited and unsolicited) until his death. Wilson co-wrote the single "Break Away", the last Beach Boys single of the 1960s, and was credited as "Reggie Dunbar" in the album's liner notes.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. It’s another thing, though, to hold up that cloth for inspection.”
—John Gregory Brown (20th century)
“Mee of these
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Remaines, sufficient of it self to raise
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Deprest, and much they may, if all be mine,
Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)