The Beach Boys’ Tragic Real-Life Story

Daddy Don’t Hurt Me

Brian, Dennis, and Carl were the Beach Boy brothers, and their father, Murry Wilson, was a horrible person. Brian wrote about their abusive childhood in I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir (via Vanity Fair). He wrote, “My dad was violent. He was cruel.”

Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson as kids

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How cruel was he? Well, when Brian was just three years old, he was deaf in one ear after his father hit him with a lead pipe! It wasn’t just him, though. Brian said that growing up, all the siblings suffered abuse. Brian once got a beating with a 2-by-4, but it was only his brother Dennis who ever fought back. He once stood his ground over a fight about some kittens.