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:
“To-morrow I will have finished four-score years. I have lived to rise from the most despised and hated woman in all the world of fifty years ago, until now it seems as if I am loved by you all. If this is true, then I am indeed satisfied.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Three years ago, also, when the Sims tragedy was acted, I said to myself, There is such an officer, if not such a man, as the Governor of Massachusetts,—what has he been about the last fortnight? Has he had as much as he could do to keep on the fence during this moral earthquake?... He could at least have resigned himself into fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)