‘Good Vibrations’: The Beach Boys to re-release ‘Pet Sounds’ for 60th anniversary
As their seminal album Pet Sounds marks its 60th anniversary, The Beach Boys are set to celebrate the occasion with a special re-release of the record.
With the six-decade anniversary taking place on May 16th, the band will honour this with a series of releases set for May 15th, with a range of bespoke editions of the iconic album available to buy.
This includes a ‘Vinylphyle Edition’ rendered in both mono and stereo, a ‘Definitive Sound Series Audiophile Edition’, and a ‘Zoetrope Edition’, all in vinyl.
On top of that, a box set, titled The Pet Sounds Session Highlights, will also be made available, featuring 25 alternate takes of the album’s famous tracks, as well as acapella vocals and tracking sessions, which have never been heard on the vinyl format before.
Aside from the musical re-releases to celebrate the 60th anniversary, in a more obscure move, The Beach Boys have also decided to mark the specific date of May 16th with a Beach Boys 5K and Wellness Day, where fans in Santa Monica can celebrate all things Pet Sounds.
The event, taking place at the Third Street Promenade, will host a variety of live music, fitness experiences, and a collective five kilometre run for all who attend.
Despite the huge anniversary milestone in their career, the Pet Sounds celebration will be tinged with a certain level of poignancy after the band’s frontman and album’s creative genius, Brian Wilson, passed away in June last year.
More recently, the band’s longest-serving touring member, Bruce Johnston, announced he would be leaving the group last week in order to focus on his solo endeavours.
However, the existing members of The Beach Boys, with now only one original in the form of Mike Love, are continuing on their current tour that will see them visit the UK this summer.
As part of their current stint of shows, PETA criticised the band over their performance at SeaWorld in Orlando on March 22nd, as the organisation said: “God only knows what The Beach Boys and John Stamos are thinking playing at this cruel abusement park, where complex marine mammals are condemned to a lifetime of misery in a dismal concrete tank.”
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