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The Beach Boys announce 50th anniversary reunion

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For years, there have been the Beach Boys, and there has been Brian Wilson, and the two rarely intersected. The pioneering SoCal pop group was so influential to pop that it was, and is, widely regarded as America’s answer to the Beatles. But Wilson’s involvement with the band waxed and waned over the decades, and more recently his role has been nonexistent while he resurrected such long-delayed projects as ‘Smile’ (which the Beach Boys also revisited this year with the well received box set, ‘The Smile Sessions) and a solo album ‘That Lucky Old Sun.’

Until now. The band confirmed speculation that all surviving members of the Beach Boys’ mid-’60s lineup -- Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks -- will reunite for the band’s 50th anniversary with a world tour and a new album on Capitol in 2012.

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Wilson is producing the new album of originals, which is still being recorded. It will top a retrospective series that includes a new greatest-hits collection and a career-spanning box set, while the 50-date world tour (with dates to be announced) begins in April and includes a stop at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The Beach Boys remain the bestselling American band in the history of Neilsen/Soundscan for albums and singles.

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-- August Brown

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