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June 2000

Paul McCartney inducts Brian Wilson into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

Last updated on June 18, 2025


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Personally he’s one of your great American geniuses, in the 60s particularly, he wrote some music that, when I played it, it made me cry and I don’t quite know why. It wasn’t necessarily the words or the music, there’s just something so deep in it that there’s only certain pieces of music can do this to me, and just reach it right down in me and I think it’s a sign of great genius to be able to do that with a bunch of words and a bunch of notes and this man he deserves to be in the Hall Of Fame, that’s for sure. Um so, thank you sir for everything you’ve done for me, for making me cry, for having that thing you can do with your music. You just put those notes, those harmonies together. Stick a couple of words over the top of it and you’ve got me any day. Ladies and gentlemen, Brian Wilson.

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