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Location/County: Huntington, Cabell
November 06, 2018
Tuesday, November 6 at 7:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Keith Albee Performing Arts Center
925 4th Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia 25701
The Keith-Albee will be filled with the sounds of summer as Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys perform hits we all know and love. This tour features Wilson and his band, including longtime Beach Boys members Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, performing tunes from throughout their career.
American songwriter, producer, arranger and musician, co-founder and leader of The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson is a deeply revered figure in popular music, the main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history. He was barely out of his teens when he started to make gold albums featuring classics like “Surfer Girl,” “In My Room,” “I Get Around,” and “Don’t Worry Baby.” Wilson’s ground-breaking work on the album, Pet Sounds, and the single, “Good Vibrations,” re-wrote the rules of what a pop album or single could be. His solo record SMiLE, released in 2004, had been anticipated by music fans since the late 1960s.
Wilson is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, and a multiple GRAMMY Award winner. With the Beach Boys, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and honored with The Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.