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.
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.
“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 partnership.
“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.
