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.”
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.