The Beach Boys - 1980-06-21 - Knebworth UK (FM)

The Beach Boys

1980-06-21

Festival Grounds

Knebworth, UK

FM Broadcast

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. California Girls

02. Sloop John B

03. Darlin'

04. School Days

05. God Only Knows

06. Do It Again

07. Little Deuce Coupe

08. Keepin' The Summer Alive

09. Lady Lynda

10. I Write The Songs 

11. Rock & Roll Music

12. I Get Around

13. Surfin' USA

14. Good Vibrations

LINK REMOVED - OFFICIALLY RELEASED

According to several sources, the Beach Boys, the ultimate summer band, were actually scheduled to headline and close the concert that epitomized the Summer of Love, the Monterey Pop Festival. Brian Wilson was on the of festival's advisory board, along with Paul McCartney, that had helped conceive the event. The band pulled out of the show however, for a host of reasons. Carl Wilson was in a feud with government officials for his refusal to be drafted into military service during the Vietnam War. In addition, the band feared that their older, surf music wouldn't play to the counter-culture crowd. The band had no new materiel because they had aborted work on Smile, an album Brian had hoped would rival discs such as Rubber Soul and Revolver. Brian suffered a nervous breakdown in the process, as the workload coupled with his dependence of drugs, keft him mentally and emotionally scarred. He could barely take care of himself, let alone play live in front of thousands of fans. Smile would become , however, another element in 1967's legacy. as over the next 5 decades years, the legends surrounding the disc grew until it became possibly the most famous unreleased album in the history of popular music. In any event, ths FM broadcast captures the Beach Boys 13 years later, at the Knebworth Festival, on June 21, 1974, 42 years ago today.