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Product Name: Most Famous Recluse
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founder and creative genius of the Beach Boys wrote such classics as Good Vibrations, California Girls and God Only Knows. Distraught over the commercial failure of his artistic masterpiece Pet Sounds , Wilson entered twenty five years of drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity and mental illness. From the summer of 1973 to late 1975, Wilson locked himself in his bedroom and laid in bed. His daily ritual consisted of watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Johnny Carson on TV and staring at "intricately carved angels" on the headboard of his bed. Iggy Pop (not exactly a paradigm of normal living) was once quoted as saying that Wilson was "just too damn weird"! An interesting encounter of 60's recluses occurred in the late summer of 1969 - Wilson met Elvis at the RCA studios. Wilson's described the encounter in his autobiography
After a couple of hours in the studio, word arrived: Elvis was ready. Several bodyguards preceded him, checked the place out, and drawled a few Memphis-intoned "Hi boys. How yew'll doin?" Then Elvis sauntered in, laid back, quiet, flashing a sheepish grin. He was introduced around the room, then to me. I seemed to impress him.
"I've heard a lot about you," he said, extending his hand for me to shake. "how yew doin', Duke?"
I wondered why he called me Duke, then figured Elvis was a joker. I knew he was a black belt. Hmmm. I decided to try some humor of my own out on him. Instead of shaking hands, I whipped around and feigned a karate chop and a kick, aiming both at Elvis's gut. Reacting with sharp reflexes, he raised a forearm to block and stepped backward. I broke up, but he didn't crack a smile.
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