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Brian Wilson - Good Vibrations Greatest Hits Tour

Gateshead Sage

Saturday 6 June, 7.30pm


Co-founding member of The Beach Boys – Brian Wilson makes a welcome return to the UK to perform Good Vibrations Greatest Hits Live across the country, with special guests Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin.

Wilson has been universally hailed as a writer of one of the greatest American songbooks, Pet Sounds, which has reigned atop countless critic and fan polls, and has maintained its timeless rank as one of popular music’s most-cited influences. The Pet Sounds Anniversary World Tour was named one of Rolling Stone’s Greatest Tours of 2017; it travelled to more than 24 countries for 180 performances from 2016-2018.

As a teenager, Wilson co-founded The Beach Boys, signing with Capitol Records in July 1962 and releasing the band’s first album, Surfin’ Safari, that same year. Their initial surf-rock focus was soon broadened to include other themes. Wilson’s innovative vocal and instrumental arrangements for major hits, including I Get Around, California Girls, Wouldn’t It Be Nice, God Only Knows, and the number one smash, Good Vibrations, established The Beach Boys as America’s preeminent band of the 1960s.

Wilson has also achieved great success as a solo artist, with 11 of his own albums released to date, including his acclaimed 2004 completion of an album he first began recording in the ’60s, Brian Wilson Presents…SMiLE. The album earned Wilson his first GRAMMY for a recording, which was followed by his second GRAMMY win for producing The Beach Boys’ acclaimed 2011 release, The SMiLE Sessions.

In 2015, Wilson released his solo album No Pier Pressure and was the subject of the critically acclaimed, award-winning biopic Love & Mercy. Directed by Bill Pohlad and starring John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti, Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of the music legend. Set against the era-defining catalogue of the music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the iconic performer whose success came at an extraordinary personal cost. The culmination of these projects produced Wilson’s first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song (Motion Picture) for One Kind of Love, which was featured in the film.

Brian Wilson is a Kennedy Center Honours recipient, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and a U.K. Music Hall of Fame inductee. As a member of The Beach Boys, Wilson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and honoured with The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.



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