Live at Knebworth

The Beach Boys | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Recall Records UK
• ASIN: B000MGBRM2
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,425 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Intro

2. California Girls

3. Sloop John B

4. Darlin'

5. School Days

6. God Only Knows

7. Be True to Your School

8. Do It Again

9. Little Deuce Coupe

10. Cotton Fields/Heroes and Villains

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Keepin' the Summer Alive

2. Lady Lynda

3. Surfer Girl

4. Help Me Rhonda

5. Rock and Roll Music

6. I Get Around

7. Surfin' USA

8. You Are So Beautiful

9. Good Vibrations

10. Barbara Ann

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Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Beach Boys At Their Late Prime, February 5, 2010

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Jeffrey N. Fritz "Nikon Jeff" (Morgantown, West Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at Knebworth (Audio CD)

Brian Wilson hated touring and performing in concerts. The Beach Boys were in turmoil in the 1980s. Drugs, sex, lawsuits, nervous breakdowns and infighting were rampant. The world was changing around them and, in many ways, collapsing in on them.

Yet there was the music--and oh what music it is! Arrangements to die for, vocal harmonizations that sound heavenly and songs that no other groups could match. And all of this comes through on this wonderful concert performed and recorded in Knebworth, Herfordshire, England in June 1980. Brian Wilson, who had just turned 38, is there as are the full original lineup of Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine. Oh yes, all the classics are there along with well some very well done covers.

It's a special moment and an equally special concert. The Beach Boys were in great form and if they weren't totally enjoying themselves, it's impossible to tell. That makes the two CD set "Live at Knebworth" a joy to listen to. As Paul Lester's informative liner notes state, "while this album is playing you can forget all of (the bad times) and just rejoice in the endless harmonies of a band captured at their late peak."