{"id":808105,"date":"2020-06-05T07:19:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1010538"},"modified":"2020-06-05T07:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:19:16","slug":"watch-brian-wilson-perform-solo-god-only-knows-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-brian-wilson-perform-solo-god-only-knows-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Brian Wilson Perform Solo \u2018God Only Knows\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BW6-5.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brian-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-wilson\" data-tag=\"brian-wilson\">Brian Wilson<\/a> delivered solo renditions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beach-boys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beach-boys\" data-tag=\"the-beach-boys\">the Beach Boys<\/a> classic \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d and his own \u201cLove and Mercy\u201d during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI just want you guys to know that we\u2019re all in this together,\u201d Wilson told the audience from his piano. On the late-night show\u2019s broadcast, Wilson performed an unadorned version of P<em>et Sounds<\/em>\u2019 \u201cGod Only Knows,\u201d with the singer accompanied only by his piano. \u201cI love you all, love and mercy to you all,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As a web exclusive, Wilson next played \u201cLove and Mercy,\u201d a cut from Wilson\u2019s 1988 self-titled solo LP that he later reimagined for the <em>I Just Wasn\u2019t Made for These Times<\/em> soundtrack; that stripped-down arrangement is the version Wilson brought to <em>The Late Show<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MviBdm30cRQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In March, Wilson took part in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/igtv-in-my-room-music-series-968908\/\">In My Room live series<\/a>, where he played piano renditions of Beach Boys\u2019 \u201cDo It Again\u201d and \u201cLove and Mercy.\u201d In recent months, there has also been talk of Wilson potentially reuniting with the Beach Boys\u2019 current lineup for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beach-boys-60th-anniversary-reunion-tour-997685\/\">a 60th anniversary tour<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/brian-wilson-god-only-knows-colbert-1010538\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wilson delivered solo renditions of the Beach Boys classic \u201cGod Only Knows\u201d and his own \u201cLove and Mercy\u201d during a #PlayAtHome performance for Thursday\u2019s Late Show With Stephen Colbert. \u201cI just want you guys to know that we\u2019re all in this together,\u201d Wilson told the audience from his piano. On the late-night show\u2019s broadcast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 04:37:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}