Tag: Pet Sounds

Every day on Radio Nova, just before 11am, we play a couple of songs key to “today in music history” Have...

The great Brian Wilson has announced that he will perform two shows at Dublin’s Vicar Street with special guests Al Jardine...

Appetite For Destruction is the debut album from Guns N' Roses and was released on July 21st 1987. It launched the...

Full Moon Fever is debut solo album by Tom Petty and it was released on April 24th, 1989. Even though it...

Definitely Maybe is the debut album from Oasis and it was released on the 29th of August 1994. It would go...

Rumours is the eleventh studio album by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac. Largely recorded in California during 1976, it was produced...

Following a few hiccups since forming, The Verve hung up their boots (for what they said was the final time) on...

Automatic for the People is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. Upon release, it reached number two on the U.S. album charts and yielded six singles. The album has sold 18 million copies worldwide and is widely considered one of the best records released in the 1990s.

Invisible Touch is the thirteenth studio album by the band Genesis, released in 1986. It reached No.1 in the UK where it remained in the charts for 96 weeks, making it by far the most commercially successful album of their career, being certified 6x platinum in the US and 4x platinum in the UK. It eventually sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It received generally favourable reviews from critics and produced five US Top 5 singles, including the title track which reached the No.1 spot on the US chart, the only song by Genesis to do so.

Beach boy fans are in for a treat. Brian Wilson is set to return to Ireland this summer with his 50th Anniversary Pet Sounds Tour. The Beach boys frontman will perform the iconic album in its exact running order - followed by a set of the best of Brian Wilson and Beach Boys material, during which he'll be joined by Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin. Watch the 74 year old perform “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” during a Pet Sounds 50th Anniversay concert in Grand Prairie, Texas here.