VARIOUS: Founding members of the Beach Boys make first public appearance together in ten years.

Record ID: 711176

  • Title: VARIOUS: Founding members of the Beach Boys make first public appearance together in ten years.
  • Date: 15th June 2006
  • Summary: CAMERA OPERATOR (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRIAN WILSON, FROM THE BEACH BOYS, SAYING: "It's (the music) something that goes deeper then spiritual even. It's a very very deep experience."
  • Embargoed: 30th June 2006 13:00
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  • Story Text: Three of the original Beach Boys appeared together in public for the first time in a decade in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday (June 13) to toast their musical legacy and hinted at the possibility of a reunion performance.
    Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine, along with Bruce Johnston, who joined the touring lineup in 1965, gathered on top of the Capitol Records office tower for the presentation of double-platinum plaques marking U.S. sales of more than 2 million copies of the band's 2003 collection, "Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys." The three original band members have not performed together in years due to years of feuding but the guys were all smiles on the rooftop of the historical Capitol building. "I think its always important that we get together those of us who have made such great music together of course it's a happy occasion," said Love who is also Wilson's cousin. The focus of the event was to promote reissues of the band's catalog and celebrate the success of "Sounds of Summer," a 30-track set featuring hits like "California Girls," "I Get Around" and "Surfin' U.S.A."
    "It's something that goes deeper then spiritual even. It's a very very deep experience," Wilson told Reuters about his music. The album, released in 12 countries, spent its first two years on the Billboard Top 200 chart and has since ranked among the top 10 biggest-selling catalog albums of all time. "I want to thank everybody involved that helped us get that album ... going and going," said Wilson. "And I thank the Beach Boys themselves for being great, great artists to produce. I'd rather produce those guys over any other artists in the whole world." Johnston, who became part of the group when Wilson quit touring to focus on studio work, paid tribute to Wilson's brothers and fellow founding band members, Dennis, who drowned in 1983, and Carl, who died of cancer in 1998. Organizers said the last time the original Beach Boys appeared together in public was around the time that "Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1," a collection of Beach Boy covers performed by various country music artists, was released in 1996. Capitol Records, a unit of EMI Music Group, also announced plans for a 40th-anniversary release June 27 of a deluxe CD single of "Good Vibrations," featuring five versions of the band's seminal 1966 hit and its original U.S. B-side. In late August, Capitol also plans a 40-year commemorative reissue of the band's landmark "Pet Sounds" album in a CD/DVD package that includes mono, stereo and digital Surround Sound mixes of the music, plus previously unreleased promotional and documentary footage.
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