Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson
will play the only Italian date on his world tour at Umbria Jazz
on July 15.
Wilson, who just turned 75, will release a collection of his
solo work on September 22.
In Perugia the Californian songwriter will play, after 50
years, Pet Sounds, the record that with the Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Heart Club's Band, changed the history of pop
music.
Wilson will bring an 11-strong band including Al Jardine and
Blondie Chaplin who were in the Beach Boys at various times:
Jardine was a founder member in the early 1960s, while Chaplin
played in the band in the '70s.
"Playback", the solo album, contains 18 studio and live
tracks covering 30 years of work, starting in 1988.
There are two previously unheard songs: "Run James Run",
penned for the occasion, and "Some Sweet Day", composed by
Wilson in the early '90s for an album project that did not come
to fruition.
The new album will come out as a double album on vinyl as
well as on CD.
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