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This DVD features a special concert performance by Brian Wilson, including such guest stars as Christopher Cross, Jimmy Buffett, and Timothy B. Schmit. Though the concert segment of the DVD ranges through Wilson's career from his earliest Beach Boy days, its focus is his album Imagination, his first output in a decade. Each song is bracketed by interview segments: with Wilson, with his various collaborators, and with such admirers as Stevie Wonder and Barenaked Ladies. Still, while the concert performances are strong, they feature the same trick as his recent live concerts: sweeping washes of sound that mask just how thin and tentative Wilson's voice has become. As for insight into Wilson's tragically quirky life and pained genius, check out I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Don Was's film about Wilson. --Marshall Fine

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Brian Wilson's imagination inspired some of the most influential and chart-topping music of this century. This program spans from the earliest archival footage to the landmark album "Pet Sounds," and on to behind-the-scenes in the studio with Brian recording his first solo disc in a decade. Interviews with fans like Eric Clapton, Sean Lennon, Elvis Costello, the Barenaked Ladies, Stevie Wonder and Jimmy Buffett make this program a celebration of the genius behind the Beach Boys, one of music's brightest, most mercurial, and most enduring legends. Centerstage is a concert special featuring guests Jimmy Buffett, Christopher Cross, Bruce Johnston and Timothy B. Schmit with a 20-piece orchestral back-up showcasing a mix of Brian Wilson classics, old and new. Songs: California Girls, In My Room, South American, She Says That She Needs Me, Your Imagination, Lay Down Burden, Don't Worry Baby.