Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson is the king over the water of pop music, a prodigiously talented individual who was lost for decades. The Beach Boys never were surfers, of course, just riding the opportunity of a West Coast wave. They were middle-class music-lesson graduates, including the three Wilson brothers (and a cousin). Wilson Snr was a tough, angry father who wanted them to keep turning out the well-crafted sun-kissed hits. If the Beatles twisted and shouted minor key melodies from their misty island, the Beach Boys did golden-lit barbershop, a white wall of sound, polyphonic and complex – and that was all down to Brian. Brian though had tired of the breezy beach concept and wanted to move on creatively; where that led personally is the subject of this unusual biopic, set in t