Last year The Beach Boys hit the road for an international tour in celebration of 50 years of performing surf music and other tunes. And now the band – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks – have announced they are releasing a new concert album, Live – The 50th Anniversary Tour.
Live will feature 41 recordings from the tour and will arrive in stores on May 21, 2013.
The 2012 tour was Brian Wilson’s first major tour with the group in 20 years. The iconic band hit 70 cities, including an appearance at the Hollywood Bowl – their first concert in that locale since 1965.
The Beach Boys: Live – The 50th Anniversary Tour [CD, digital]
CD1
1. Do It Again
2. Little Honda
3. Catch a Wave
4. Hawaii
5. Don’t Back Down
6. Surfin’ Safari
7. Surfer Girl
8. The Little Girl I Once Knew
9. Wendy
10. Getcha Back
11. Then I Kissed Her
12. Marcella
13. Isn’t It Time
14. Why Do Fools Fall In Love
15. When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
16. Disney Girls
17. Be True To Your School
18. Little Deuce Coupe
19. 409
20. Shut Down
21. I Get Around
CD2
1. Pet Sounds
2. Add Some Music To Your Day
3. Heroes and Villains
4. Sail On, Sailor
5. California Saga: California
6. In My Room
7. All This is That
8. That’s Why God Made the Radio
9. Forever
10. God Only Knows
11. Sloop John B
12. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
13. Good Vibrations
14. California Girls
15. Help Me Rhonda
16. Rock and Roll Music
17. Surfin’ U.S.A.
18. Kokomo
19. Barbara Ann
20. Fun, Fun, Fun
More on The Beach Boys (Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises)
For five decades, America’s first pop band to reach the 50-year milestone has recorded and performed the music that has become the world’s favorite soundtrack to summer. Founded in Hawthorne, California in 1961, The Beach Boys were originally comprised of the three teenage Wilson brothers: Brian, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and school friend Al Jardine. In 1962, neighbor David Marks joined the group for their first wave of hits with Capitol Records, leaving in late 1963, and in 1965, Bruce Johnston joined the band when Brian Wilson retired from touring to focus on writing and producing for the group.
The Beach Boys signed with Capitol Records in July 1962 and released their first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. The album spent 37 weeks on the Billboard chart, launching the young group known for its shimmering vocal harmonies and relaxed California style into international stardom. The Wilson/Love collaboration resulted in many huge international chart hits, and the band’s initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes, making The Beach Boys America’s preeminent band of the 1960s.
In 1966, The Beach Boys were one of the first bands to found its own record label with the launch of Brother Records, Inc. (BRI), with the band’s members as its shareholders and Capitol Records as its distribution partner. BRI continues to manage The Beach Boys’ intellectual property, including the band’s catalog with Capitol/UMe and other label partners, as well as its name, logos, image, and likeness.
The Beach Boys continue to hold Billboard / Nielsen SoundScan’s record as the top-selling American band for albums and singles, and they are also the American group with the most Billboard Top 40 chart hits (36). ‘Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys’ has achieved triple-Platinum sales status, and ‘The SMiLE Sessions,’ released to worldwide critical acclaim in November, won a GRAMMY Award for Best Historical Album and was heralded as 2011’s #1 Reissue of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and recipients of The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award, The Beach Boys are an American institution that is iconic around the world.
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