Talk:Dennis Wilson

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Dennis Wilson is my favourite Beach Boy! An excellent biography! Little Surfer Girl 09:42, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, it's a nice bio but it's really not appropriate, it's far too personal 'I am listening to POB and it is clear...'. It's not fact it's opinion

"Hit once again in his throat".... Too much value given to a biased book "Heroes And Villains." Any problems that Dennis suffered after 1976 were of his own doing. Deleting it. -- Elaich 05:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Early in the Beach Boys career after their rise to stardom, member Mike Love was hit with a paternity suit over a baby girl. After a year, he won in court, and he never took responsibility for her. Her mother gave her the name Haley Love, and after she grew up, she had a relationship with Dennis Wilson. Seems like Dennis Wilson's biography here should mention that he shacked up with the daughter of his bandmate.

[edit] Neutral Point-of-view

This article is very much not NPOV and is mostly uncited. One example: "Despite his lower artistic profile, Wilson became far and away the most popular member of the group, becoming its box-office sex symbol"

[edit] Heroes and Villains/Steven Gaines

Please refrain from using the unreliable and unsourced fictitious book 'Heroes and Villains' by Steven Gaines as a source or a way to further any allegations/rumours that are contained within it.

Gaines continuously makes unreliable, unsourced allegations throughout the book with no alternate source or related material in support of him.

The book is closer to a trashy novel or something you would find in the fiction section of your local library than a biography or a resourced and documented piece of work.

Tiburon 10:59, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How?

The "Death" section as it stands in mid-December, 2006 is totally inadequate. All we are is told is that he drowned. Was it drug-related? An accident? Suspected suicide? Was the body recovered? Any autopsy? JDG 04:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Details about Dennis Wilson's death

I remember his death, and I got most of my information from a copy of People magazine that came out immediately after he died. He died while diving off of his sailboat, 'Harmony', berthed in Marina Del Ray, California. He lived aboard the boat, and he spent a lot of time there drinking (if I recall correctly it was said to be a 'fifth' of vodka a day). He was drinking and free diving for items he had tossed overboard during previous bouts of drunken anger. He was thrilled to be finding the items (I don't remember who else was aboard, maybe one person). During one dive he simply never resurfaced, and his body was found later that day. I do remember reading that he had recently repurchased 'Harmony', which he had lost due to financial problems. He was happier than he had been in a while, but he was still drinking a lot. I think I still have my copy of that People magazine. If I find it I will expand the article, and use People magazine as a source. Hurrmic 19:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I am pretty certain that he wasn't diving from his boat that day, I'm pretty sure it was his friends boat called "The Emerald" -- Sahafan 14:42, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Charles Manson

This article states "Charles Manson had briefly become Dennis Wilson's protégé before the murders," .

"Protégé"? This sounds ludicrous to me. I can't imagine Charles Manson being the protégé of a man 10 years young than himself. If he was indeed Wilson's protege, then Wilson had a real responsibility there.

I suspect that the writer meant the exact opposite.

• Is it intended to mean that Manson was Wilson's "mentor"?
• Or that Wilson was Manson's "protégé"?

Even if that is what was meant, it is a fairly far stretch of the word, unless Manson can actually be said to have sponsored Wilson's success or greatly influenced Wilson's thoughts or actions.

Can someone who knows more about this specific matter than I do kindly fix it. Amandajm (talk) 02:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)