| December 03, Brian Wilson smiles at the RFH For the last couple of nights I've been watching a fellow Brian, Brian Wilson, former senior Beach Boy, on the telly, playing Beach Boy music, but at the age of about sixty. And I watched and listened with a sort of ghastly fascination. You can see the problem right there in the name of that group. They weren't called the Beach Boys for nothing. And there was something really odd about watching this sixty year old guy, who looked more like a Democrat Presidential Candidate than a pop singer, singing boy songs, in an old-guy-trying-to-do-a-young-guy voice. The story is that ⦠Well, other people know the story far better than I do, so let one of them tell it: BEACH BOYS star BRIAN WILSON has played the 'lost' album 'SMILE' for the first time ever in London. The singer played the first night of a residency at the London Royal Festival Hall this evening (February 20), the first dates on a tour which will visit other cities throughout the UK this month. The gig itself was split into two sections. The first opened with a fifteen minute acoustic set, followed by a âGreatest Hitsâ show. During this, Wilson, backed by an 18-piece band, performed a number of songs from 'Pet Sounds', including God Only Knows' and 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'. | |
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