I remember a long time ago there was a tune I had heard that I thought was kind of catchy (but not catchy enough that I knew the title of it or was inspired to buy the CD) with a corus that went "[. . .] I’m just lying in bed like Brian Wilson did [. . .]", anyway, many years later (probably ’06) I was listening to NPR and they were talking about Brian Wilson and I learned the song was Brian Wilson by Barenaked Ladies. On the program I was listening to they were talking about Brian Wilson’s battle with depression and all the time he spent in bed (like a year?); at the time I heard that on NPR I had just seen my career as an overpaid underworked lazy union airline mechanic going down the drain and I was finding nursing school to actually be Hell School . . . at that time I felt that a year in bed sounded pretty good.
Later on (like 2014) I was going through a funk and working two back to back 16 hour 3p to 7a shifts on weekends (sat afternoon into sun morning & then sun afternoon into mon morning) and when I got home Monday morning it seemed like I was almost sleeping from when I got off work Monday morning until I went back Saturday afternoon. At that point I became more interested in depression and its effect on sleep habits and Brian Wilson.
So then I ordered two books--the first one I read was BRIAN WILSON WOULDN’T IT BE NICE My Own Story WITH TODD GOLD, and if anyone is interested in reading about Brian Wilson, my advice is do not waste your time with that one. The second one I read was Catch A Wave The Rise, The Fall & Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson by Peter Ames Carlin (which turned out to be decently written and an interesting read). But what I also learned in the second book was that the first book was NOT written in Brrian Wilson’s own words, but in Eugene Landy’s words, and according to Catch A Wave, Landy was a psychologist who basically manipulated Wilson for a few years.
Anyway, I found Catch A Wave to be interesting and a much better read than WOULDN’T IT BE NICE, and if you are looking for something to read about Brian Wilson, I would recommend that one.