Let's do it again! Fifty years after creating the soundtrack to summer, the Beach Boys are back on t
Rewind to 50 years ago. Five fresh-faced young men — three brothers, their cousin and a friend — have formed a band and are driving a battered old van to a New Year’s Eve dance where they have been hired for their first paying gig.
They are bottom of a bill headlined by Ike and Tina Turner. However, with the promise of £25 each, they are prepared to play all night if necessary.
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It’s been a five-decade roller-coaster ride for them — or, as Brian put it this week, ‘a rock ’n’ roller-coaster’ — with the many incredible highs interspersed with rows, tragedies, legal wrangles and personal problems. But the surviving members of the group are reuniting to make 2012 their golden anniversary year, commemorating their first major record deal with the Capitol label.
‘We are making a new studio album, re-issuing a lot of our hits, and in April we will embark on a 50-date world tour,’ says Brian. ‘And, yes, we are planning to play in the UK.’
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