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MUSIC
Beach Boys Live in Cape Town
Venue: Grand Arena, GrandWest, Goodwood. Tel: 083 915
8000.
Time: 8:00pm
Price: R220 - R500
Performances: 6 & 7 Dec 2010
Genre: Dance/ Pop
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Since the 1960s the iconic American pop rock band The Beach
Boys represented the best of summer. They gained popularity for their laid
back harmonies and lyrics celebrating the easy beach and surfing lifestyle
of southern California with albums such as Surfin’ USA, All Summer Long,
Summer Days and Summer Nights and All Summer Long.
The reformed band which includes founding member Mike Love
and Bruce John will perform live in Cape Town at the GrandWest Grand Arena
between 6 and 7 December, where they will perform many of their hit songs
such as I Get around, Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, California Girls
and Kokomo.
Over the past 49 years, the band’s accolades have included
more US top 40 hits than any other US rock band (36), being listed twelfth
on Rolling Stone magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and the
number one selling American band of all time by Billboard. In 2003
Rolling Stone voted the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds the second most
important ‘500 Greatest albums of all time’ and Good Vibrations the
‘Number one song of the century’.
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The founding members of the band were inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. They have appeared on countless worldwide
television shows, been nominated for a Grammy Award for Good Vibrations
and honoured at the 2001 Grammy Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Most recently, the band’s 2006 Sounds of Summer: the very
best of the Beach Boys album was certified double platinum.
The current band consists of founding member Mike Love on
lead vocals and Bruce Johnston on vocals and keyboards, supported by
Christian Love on guitar and vocals, Randell Kirsch on bass and vocals,
Tim Bonhomme on keyboards and vocals, John Cowsill on percussion and
vocals and Scott Totten on guitar and vocals.
The original surviving Beach Boys [Brian Wilson, Mike Love,
Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks] met at Capitol Records in
Hollywood on June 13 2006, to mark the success of their Sounds of Summer
album and the 40th anniversary of their Pet Sounds album. They were
awarded plaques for their efforts and Brian Wilson accepted those awarded
to his late brothers Carl and Dennis.
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