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Englewood, NJ Bergen Performing Arts Center Fri May 31 / 13 Find Tickets
Stamford, CT Palace Theatre Stamford Sat Jun 01 / 13 Find Tickets
Santa Ynez, CA Chumash Casino Thu Jun 06 / 13 Find Tickets
Cabazon, CA Morongo Casino Resort and Spa Fri Jun 07 / 13 Find Tickets
Del Mar, CA Del Mar Fairgrounds Sat Jun 08 / 13 Find Tickets
Saratoga, CA Mountain Winery Sun Jun 09 / 13 Find Tickets
Paris Olympia Hall Mon Jul 08 / 13 Find Tickets
Chesapeake, VA Chesapeake City Park Fri Jul 19 / 13 Find Tickets
Baltimore, MD Pier Six Concert Pavilion Sat Jul 20 / 13 Find Tickets
Big Flats, NY Budweiser Summer Stage at Tags Fri Jul 26 / 13 Find Tickets
Ocean Grove, NJ Ocean Grove Great Auditorium Sat Jul 27 / 13 Find Tickets
Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena Sun Jul 28 / 13 Find Tickets
Grand Rapids, MI Frederik Meijer Gardens Thu Aug 01 / 13 Find Tickets
Sterling Heights, MI Freedom Hill Amphitheatre Fri Aug 02 / 13 Find Tickets
Bowling Green, OH Wood County Fairgrounds Sat Aug 03 / 13 Find Tickets
Cleveland, OH Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica Sun Aug 04 / 13 Find Tickets
Verona, NY Turning Stone Casino Thu Aug 08 / 13 Find Tickets
Chautauqua, NY Chautauqua Amphitheater Fri Aug 09 / 13 Find Tickets
Kahnawake Maddie's Place Rocks Sat Aug 10 / 13 Find Tickets
Kennett Square, PA Longwood Gardens Tue Aug 13 / 13 Find Tickets
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The Beach Boys Biography

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The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group's best known lineup consisted of Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Initially managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, the Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962. The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid-1960s, Brian Wilson's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction. The primarily Wilson-composed ''Pet Sounds'' album and "Good Vibrations" single (both released in 1966) featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound that represented a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys' early years. Starting in 1967, Wilson gradually abdicated control to the rest of the band, assuming a reduced level of input due to mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered international critical and commercial success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America despite once being seen as the primary competitors to the Beatles. Since the 1980s, there has been much legal-wrangling among the group members over royalties, songwriting credits, and use of the band's name. Dennis Wilson drowned in December 1983, and Carl died of lung cancer in February 1998. After Carl's death, a number of versions of the band, each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet, continued to tour into the 2000s. In 2012, the surviving Beach Boys put aside their differences, recorded a new album, and embarked on a full-scale reunion tour. The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band", and Allmusic has stated that their "unerring ability ... made them America's first, best rock band." The group have had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four of those reaching number-one on the ''Billboard Hot 100'' chart. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Shut Down Volume II Album 2013-01-26 itunes amazon
Fifty Big Ones: Greatest Hits Compilation 2012-10-09 itunes amazon
The Sound of Summer Compilation 2009-08-02 itunes amazon
The Beach Boys: 10 Great Songs Compilation 2009 itunes amazon
L.A. (Light Album) Album 2008-08-27 itunes amazon
The Warmth of the Sun Compilation 2007-05-22 itunes amazon
Collector's Edition Compilation 2007 itunes amazon
Songs From Here & Back Live 2006-06-13 itunes amazon
The Great Beach Boys Compilation 2006-03-20 itunes amazon
The Platinum Collection Compilation 2005-05-30 itunes amazon
SMiLE (Hybrid Version) unknown 2005-05-27 itunes amazon
Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of… Compilation 2003-06-10 itunes amazon
Greatest Hits Compilation 2002-07-16 itunes amazon
Classics Selected by Brian Wilson Compilation 2002-07-02 itunes amazon
Hits of the Beach Boys Compilation 2002-06-24 itunes amazon
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