The Beach Boys in Concert
The Ultimate History of
America’s Band on Tour and Onstage
by Ian Rusten and Jon
Stebbins
The Beach Boys have
been a fixture of the American music scene since their iconic album Pet
Sounds was released in 1966. The band has performed live every year since
1961.
In The Beach Boys in Concert: The Ultimate History of America’sBand on Tour and Onstage (Backbeat Books, July 15, $39.99), Ian Rusten
and Jon Stebbins cover the incredible five-decade touring journey in a
day-by-day format that includes not only dates, locations, and other acts, but
also thumbnail highlights or quotes for each concert.
The Beach Boys inConcert details the Beach Boys’ thrilling successes, personal
tragedies, interband dramas, and globe-trotting rock-and-roll adventures from
their humble beginnings in 1961 to their reunion in 2012.
Previously
unpublished photographs and rare memorabilia images bring fans deeper into the
context of any given era covered in the book. Each chapter is dedicated to one
year, showing the full evolution of this entertainment phenomenon in a way that
has never been done before.
The book is rife with stories on how the Beach
Boys grew from a simple surf-pop band singing about the California sun to
producing the album that inspired Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Rusten and Stebbins don’t shy away from showing the low points of the band, but
they don’t dwell on the sensationalist aspects of the Beach Boys’ colorful
past.
The Beach Boys in Concert is an exhilarating ride through
the group’s career as concert performers and American legends.
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