 Wilson has not played the Smile album live in the US |
Beach Boy Brian Wilson has announced a US tour of his acclaimed Smile show, which has played to packed houses across Europe. Wilson will play a month of concerts in the US, starting with a show on 30 September in Minneapolis.
The tour ends with on 2 November at the Walt Disney Theatre in Los Angeles, and includes two nights at New York's Carnegie Hall.
The show will include songs from the Beach Boys' lost Smile LP.
Wilson will play the gigs with a ten-piece band.
A re-recorded version of Smile is to be released in the US on 30 September on Nonesuch Records. The original record was never commercially released.
Eden show
Smile is regarded as the Beach Boys' lost masterpiece.
Work began on it after their groundbreaking 1966 album Pet Sounds, but recording sessions disintegrated because of Wilson's psychological problems brought on by drug use.
Some of its songs later appeared on the 1968 album Smiley Smile.
Wilson, 61, played summer concerts in the UK, including the Eden Project environmental centre in Cornwall, playing in entirety Pet Sounds and Smile.
Wilson is the last surviving member of the three Wilson brothers who formed the 60s group.
His brother Dennis drowned in 1983, while Carl died of cancer in 1998.
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