The Beach Boys To Perform At London's Wembley Arena As Part Of 50th Anniversary World Tour & Tickets
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
The founding members of The Beach Boys, one of the world’s most legendary bands in popular music history, have reunited for a global 50th Anniversary celebration. Playing for the first time in more than two decades, a date has been confirmed at Wembley Arena, London, for Friday 28th September 2012. Tickets for The Beach Boys are on sale this Friday at 9am.
In addition to the world tour, The Beach Boys will release a brand new studio album entitled 'That’s Why God Made The Radio'. The album, the band's 29th studio record, is released on 4th June.
Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks completed the album's recording sessions at Los Angeles’ Ocean Way Studios. The album is the first in decades to feature all of the band’s surviving original members. Produced by Brian Wilson and executive produced by Mike Love, the album’s eleven new songs illustrate The Beach Boys’ unique and evocative West Coast story with the band’s timeless signature sound.
The album’s lead single, 'That’s Why God Made The Radio', out now, showcases The Beach Boys’ soaring harmonies in an upbeat, beaming ode to music’s radio champions around the world.
“Radio was my whole education,” says Brian Wilson. “Chuck Berry, Rosemary Clooney, The Four Freshmen, Phil Spector, Little Richard... To hear That’s Why God Made The Radio on the radio would be a thrill beyond belief, it really would.”
“I got a lot of my appreciation for all of the creativity in the world, in terms of music, through the radio,” says Mike Love. “For all of us who grew up in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond, the radio has played such a huge, important part in our lives. When we were kids, we’d sneak out of the house and go and sit in Brian’s car and listen to the local radio stations on his car radio.”
he album’s other new songs include ‘Think About The Days’, Isn’t It Time,’ ‘Spring Vacation,’ ‘Private Life Of Bill And Sue,’ ‘Shelter’ ‘Daybreak Over The Ocean,’ ‘Beaches In Mind’, ‘Strange World,’ ‘My Life Suite’, and ‘Summer’s Gone.’
The Beach Boys’ 50th Anniversary Tour, the band’s first major outing to include Brian Wilson in more than two decades, began last month with other dates confirmed throughout Europe to be announced soon.
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