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Previously unpublished photographs and rare memorabilia images bring fans deeper into the context of any given era covered in the book.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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