Dennis Wilson

This first full biography of the founding member of The Beach Boys. Sun drenched surfer on the beaches of California, with an insatiable sexual appetite and daredevil approach to life, Dennis was the wild and reckless brother who fired Brian Wilson's imagination and helped spark a cultural tidal wave in the form of The Beach Boys. His life was a short, brilliant, intoxicating ride ending in addiction, despair, and finally self-destruction at age 39.

Dennis Wilson, Beach Boys drummer, 60's pin-upsurfer, hedonist, and tragic victim of a premature,death stood in stark contrast to the clean image,of all American boy as portrayed by the group.,Yet it is his soulful, fractured voice and music,that remains the focal point of this in-depth,study, and ultimately the man's true legacy.

They were almost The Pendletones--after the Pendleton wool shirts favored on chilly nights at the beach--then The Surfers, before being named The Beach Boys. But what separated them from every other teenage garage band with no musical training? They had raw talent, persistence and a wellspring of creativity that launched them on a legendary career now in its sixth decade. Following the musical vision of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys blended ethereal vocal harmonies, searing electric guitars and lush arrangements into one of the most distinctive sounds in the history of popular music. Drawing on original interviews and newly uncovered documents, this book untangles the band's convoluted early history and tells the story of how five boys from California formed America's greatest rock 'n' roll band.

Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently summarized the joy and beauty of the era in three-and-a-half minutes. But there was a dark flip side to the fun fun fun of the music, a nexus between naïve young musicians and the fringe elements that exploited the decade's peace-love-and-flowers ethos, all fueled by sex, drugs, and overnight success. One surf music superstar unwittingly subsidized the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. The transplanted Texas singer Bobby Fuller might have been murdered by the Mob in what is still an unsolved case. And after hearing Charlie Manson sing, Neil Young recommended him to the president of Warner Bros. Records. Manson's ultimate rejection by the music industry likely led to the infamous murders that shocked a nation. Everybody Had an Ocean chronicles the migration of the rock 'n' roll business to Southern California and how the artists flourished there. The cast of characters is astonishing—Brian and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, eccentric producer Phil Spector, Cass Elliot, Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Joni Mitchell, and scores of others—and their stories form a modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism and joy and terror. You'll never hear that beautiful music in quite the same way.

With this book, I present some presumed national secret political aspects of the films, life and death of the American actress Sharon Tate, expounding and corroborating my hypothesis that the American Illuminati had qualified her as a person primarily genetically threatening the existence of the “American nation” — as defined, designed and made by it — and for this reason it conceived and had it founded the “Manson Family”, propagandized as a “cult”, but in reality a national secret criminal-terrorist-religious-political-paramilitary confraternity to recruit, train and deploy murderers for her concealed execution.

This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak weather and other legendary tales. Within these pages you’ll find stories of pirates holding ships to ransom and the gruesome fates of some of the shipmates who dared cross them. The sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks to the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman. The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true. Revised, redesigned and updated for 2016, this book is the perfect gift for both keen sailors to the armchair Captains. Word count: 45,000