On May 19, 4:43 pm, The old geezer <J...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 19, 4:30=EF=BF=BDpm, MFalc1 <mfa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > From Randy Lewis of THE LOS ANGELES TIMES:
> > Brian Wilson's 'That Lucky Old Sun' album due in September
> > The former Beach Boys mainstay's themed work, snapshots of Southern
> > California life, will be released Sept. 2 and represents his return to
> > Capitol.
> > By Randy Lewis, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> > May 19, 2008
> > Brian Wilson extends his personal and creative renaissance of the last
> > decade with an ambitious new themed album, "That Lucky Old Sun," a
> > work to be released in September exploring the Southern California
> > culture that he helped define musically in the 1960s as the guiding
> > creative force of the Beach Boys.
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> > Wilson also returns to his former group's longtime label, Capitol
> > Records, for this project that comes on the heels of his completion in
> > 2004 of his "Smile" album, which he shelved in 1967 because of
> > mounting personal and professional problems.
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> > "Brian Wilson is an iconic talent with enormous musical influence all
> > over the world and we are very proud to be representing him," said Guy
> > Hands, executive chairman of Capitol's parent company, EMI Music.
> > Hands and other EMI and Capitol executives are scheduled to appear
> > with Wilson today at Capitol's headquarters in Hollywood for the
> > formal announcement of their renewed partner****p.
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> > "That Lucky Old Sun," slated for release Sept. 2, got its world
> > premiere last September in London's Royal Festival Hall, the same
> > venue where he unveiled the finished "Smile" after aborting it 37
> > years earlier.
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> > "Smile" had been widely anticipated as a rival to the Beatles' "Sgt.
> > Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" as a dramatic advance in pop music
> > of the time. After its belated release in 2004, "Smile" landed at No.
> > 2, behind Kanye West's "The College Dropout," among the Village
> > Voice's nationwide poll of pop music critics on the year's best
> > albums.
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> > "That Lucky Old Sun," written by Wilson in collaboration with "Smile"
> > lyricist Van Dyke Parks and Wilson's latter-day band member Scott
> > Bennett, features an "interwoven series of 'rounds' with interspersed
> > spoken word," its composer said in a statement released today.
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> > It comprises a series of narratives with the sun, voiced by Wilson, as
> > the narrator of a series of snapshots of life in Southern California.
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> > Reviewing the London performance, England's Mojo magazine called it
> > Wilson's "most ambitious new work since returning from the wilderness,
> > [recalling] 'Pet Sounds' and 'Smile,' not least in its playfully
> > baroque arrangements -- a playground riot of glockenspiel, timpani,
> > strings and harmonies all played with a smile -- and melodic nods to
> > the Beach Boy canon, complementing the autobiographical bent of the
> > lyric-book."
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> > Wilson, 65, and his band are scheduled to introduce "That Lucky Old
> > Sun" to hometown audiences in a string of three performances Sept. 12
> > to 14 at the Hollywood Bowl.
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> > Mark L. Falconer-film and video links
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