Looking at how The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds, album inspired Paul McCartney to write what John Lennon would call his best song with The Beatles.
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‘God Only Knows’ is McCartney’s favourite track from
Pet Sounds. The Beatle has talked up the song in interviews on numerous occasions in ways that he’s never spoken about any other piece of music, and he’s even performed it on-stage with Brian Wilson. The Beach Boys mastermind is one of the few men on the planet who can make even Macca’s knees quiver.
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God Only Knows‘ is one of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it. It’s really just a love song, but it’s brilliantly done. It shows the genius of Brian,” he once said in a past interview. He added: “I’ve actually performed it with him and I’m afraid to say that during the soundcheck I broke down. It was just too much to stand there singing this song that does my head in and to stand there singing it with Brian.”