Dennis Carl Wilson was born on December 21, 1946 in
Hawthorne, California, about five miles from the Pacific
Ocean. He began playing guitar as a teenager.
His lead guitar and vocals were crucial in defining the
seminal surfer band's sound, and he fronted many of the
group's classic recordings.
By the early eighties, Carl Wilson had tired of the Beach
Boys' nostalgic focus, and he left the band in 1981 to
concentrate on a solo career. He released an album, Carl
Wilson, that year and toured with his own band. But after
Dennis Wilson's death in a swimming accident, he rejoined
the group, and performed with them throughout the eighties
and nineties. The Beach Boys had a comeback hit with
"Kokomo," from the Tom Cruise film Cocktail, in 1988, the
same year they were More...
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