No Love as Beach Boys reunite, split after anniversary run (Updated March 6, 2013)

On a night in which the Beach Boys won the first true Grammy Award of the group's half-century long career, the celebration on February 10, 2013 was instead overshadowed by what happened off-stage.
After accepting the award for historical album for "The Smile Sessions," Brian Wilson made it clear to the gathered media backstage he had no intention of touring with the band again following their successful 50th anniversary run in 2012.

That tour, which made Pollstar's Top 100 highest-grossing tours of the year, ended with the Beach Boys in flux after Mike Love decided he would resume touring with his own lineup of the group, including Bruce Johnston, but without founding members Wilson, David Marks or Al Jardine. Until that point, the tour had gone without incident, and with the band harmoniously performing as many as 53 songs in one night. But when it drew to a close at Wembley Arena in London, it apparently would mark the end of the 'anniversary' celebration.

What disappointed fans, perhaps more than anything, is that the jarring end to the Beach Boys' tour not only overshadowed its success, but that of their 29th studio album released on June 5, 2012. Produced by Wilson, the project was the first original material from the band since the release of "Summer in Paradise" in 1992, and the first to feature Marks since the release of "Little Deuce Coupe" in 1963. The album reached number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was their highest charting album since 1965.

Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the two Beach Boys tours and varying lineups, they remain one of the most critically acclaimed and successful bands of all time. Fans continue to clamor for tickets to dates booked in 2013 under the Beach Boys name, to which Love holds an exclusive license.

A History of Beach Boys tickets

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In the Record Books

In the 1970s the Beach Boys began an annual series of July 4 concerts that have become legendary. On July 4, 1985, the band performed for 1 million people in Philadelphia during the afternoon concert, then for 750,000 that night on the Washington Mall. They are listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the feat. After five decades, the Beach Boys, with original member Mike Love leading, continue to sell out concert venues, performing their singular brand of California surfing rock. Beach Boys tickets are a chance to catch a legend past and present.