From: puffinNO_SPAM@ii.net   
      
   In article <43B6E7DD.7030200@netscape.com>,   
    mjoann  wrote:   
      
   > Charlie wrote:   
   >  > In article , Jan Dean   
   >  >  wrote:   
   >  >   
   >  >   
   >  >> Brian Wilson stated publicly on several occasions that no one ever   
   >  >> used the word "God" in a pop song title before he wrote "God Only   
   >  >> Knows."   
   >  >   
   >  > 1) Where has BW actually stated this????  References if you have any,   
   >  >  please.  (See note below ***)   
   >   
   > What?!? You mean you didn't buy "Live at the Roxy"? Just before "God   
   > Only Knows," Brian says it was the first song to have "God" in the title.   
      
      
   Got it - just replayed it...  and found the reference I asked for. The   
   Quote is "nobody has ever had the word "God" in the title until I wrote   
   this song"   
      
   Which is what I meant with my disclaimer - "BW has stated many things   
   over the years - So what?" - and more so when he's in front of an   
   audience.   
      
   If you need a history of BW/BB, sadly, about the last person to believe   
   is the man himself.  He clearly doesn't remember much about the old   
   days.   A quick read of his "Autobiography" confirms this.  When he was   
   flogging Live at The Roxy on QVC he confirms the wonderful story of how   
   he was the first person to use a theremin (wrong) - he also tries to   
   tell the story of how he wrote In My Room in his car (wrong) - lucky the   
   interviewer knew the story and corrects him and tells him that it was   
   Surfer Girl.   
      
      
      
   > I don't know if the OP is trying to claim that Brian cruelly lied to us,   
   > if he is just pointing out a fact (that has actually already been   
   > pointed out.)   
      
      
   That's what it seemed to me - pointing out that BW gets things wrong is   
   like claiming that the sun rises in the east.   
      
      
   >Either way, considering how many songs are out there by   
   > smaller and unknown artists, there is no way Brian could have possible   
   > known every single little song ever recorded that used the word "God."   
   > In the experience of the general public, it is quite possible that a lot   
   > of people of his generation and later might think that "God Only Knows"   
   > was the first pop song to use "God." As far as I am familiar with, it is   
   > probably the best known, and most likely the first one to be widely   
   > listened to.   
   >   
   > The claim was false, but within his own knowledge, it may have been true   
   > to him (and many other baby boomers.)   
   >   
   > mjoann   
      
   Hang on - I'm not suggesting the Big Man lied to us, that was the OP -   
   hence my troll alert, it is the sort of wild statement favoured by the   
   troll types - impune a character with some out of context quote etc...   
      
   I couldn't even recall if BW had actually stated this - you gave me a   
   reference, but like I said, so what that BW actually said it.  I'm on   
   the big guys side here   
      
   If you state something often enough, it becomes fact...  Pure   
   supposition on my part here, but it seems someone has mentioned that GOK   
   is the first song to use the word God in the title and BW has picked   
   this up and repeated it.   Maybe we can agree that GOK is the first song   
   to make the pop charts that uses the word God in a blasphemous manner.   
      
   And maybe that's what BW actually meant  : -)   
      
   Cheers   
      
   Charlie   
      
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