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On this day, 24 November 1970, American band The Beach Boys played Cardiff’s Capitol Theatre on the band’s 1970 European Tour.
The band had recently released their sixteenth studio album, Sunflower, their first on Reprise Records.
It received favorable reviews, but sold poorly, In the UK, the album peaked at number 29.
Fans generally consider Sunflower to be the Beach Boys' finest post-Pet Sounds album. It has appeared in several critics' and listeners' polls for the best albums of all time, including Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (2003).
The track "All I Wanna Do" was later cited as one of the earliest examples of dream pop and chillwave. Many Sunflower outtakes and leftover songs later appeared on subsequent Beach Boys releases, including the follow-up Surf's Up (1971) and the compilation Feel Flows (2021).
Tour - Setlist
Cotton Fields
(Lead Belly cover)
Darlin'
Wouldn't It Be Nice
Country Air
I Can Hear Music
(The Ronettes cover)
Sloop John B
([traditional] cover)
Vegetables
Riot in Cell Block #9
(The Robins cover)
Tears in the Morning
God Only Knows
Forever
Good Vibrations
Encore:
I Get Around
It's About Time
