Thanks Stephen.
I see this was publicised in 2020. Has it had an effect yet?

I've just come across a cutting from UK magazine Record Mirror 10th July 71, which says in the US George dropped in to see the band recording a Beach Boys TV special, and from that meeting came news that he will be recording with them and possibly tour with them, along with Keith Moon. I presume nothing more came of this?

Two million sales of Living Doll?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384117083939?hash=item596f298f23:g:UBkAAOSwq0Zghm6A

Not much..but Mike Love put up a Facebook post when his band returned in June 2019 to play the Lucerna Concert Hall, Prague (the venue for the first of their 3 concerts in the country back in 1969).
It said...


"FREE TO ROCK

Sunday night had to be one of the most amazing events of our career. Fifty years ago (June 17th 1969), The Beach Boys performed in Czechoslovakia at the Lucerna Great Hall in Prague. Our three performances in the country were the first by a western rock band behind The Iron Curtain.

That concert is indelibly imprinted in my memory. The memories are not only of the show, as our first impressions were formed during our landing. We chartered a plane in London to fly to Prague. It was the most intimidating sight that I have witnessed in thousands of landings. To the left side of the runway were dozens of Russian MiG-19 and MiG-21 fighter jets and to right were dozens of Russian T-55 and T-62 tanks. This was obviously staged by the Soviet military to intimidate…and it did. A year earlier, Operation Danube was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by nearly 250,000 troops from five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary.

Despite all that they had been through, the people of Czechoslovakia welcomed us with open arms. We represented rock ‘n roll, the USA and something in short supply at the time – freedom. How fitting that we were promoting our new single, Break Away, which we performed that night I will never forget the concert at Lucerna Great Hall on June 17th, 1969. The audience response was thunderous, the hall was jam-packed and there was no air conditioning. The walls and pillars of the 1920’s hall were damp from the humidity of humanity. In our entire career, we’ve never had a more tumultuous reception.

Sunday night, we performed in that in that very same hall. And at midnight we celebrated the 50th anniversary of that monumental concert. Not much has changed in that in that historic hall…but outside those walls, it’s a different story. Freedom reigns in the beautiful countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Once again, we felt the love and appreciation. A total emotional experience for all of us.

The film, Free to Rock, was released in 2017 and The Beach Boys are a part of that amazing documentary. The film was produced by Jim Brown and shows the power of music to create freedom. I am proud, yet humbled, to know that our music has connected with the hearts of millions, regardless of race and religion, language, ethnicity or geography. People feel the love, as we do, every night. It is said that home is where the heart is… and Sunday night back in Prague, we were home.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4287080/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl "

I thought I heard he has changed his name....

The track listings of these three albums in the UK were very different and to be honest I much prefer. I guess they came out that bit later and were able to include more contemporary tracks.

There's this site. Not sure if your item is there but it's fun to look through

http://www.sonic.net/~dsktracy/bbstuff/bbstuff.html

Thanks for the clarification on the SB date, Ian. 

I have not been able Nick's early 80s article but I have heard how it's very sensational. Isn't the interview Debbie Keil joined Brian for support in her anticipation of it being a hit piece?

The one thing I cannot find is any evidence of the supposed articles/press on Carolyn. Her 1982 arrest was supposedly on Entertainment Tonight in addition to other press outlets. Carolyn also made a press conference shortly after Brian was taken to Hawaii with the telegram allegedly from Brian saying he was taken against his will. The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner ran an article "Brian Wilson Please Phone Home" and Rolling Stone had a column titled "Was Brian Wilson Shanghai'd?" I can't find any evidence of these articles or any mention of the 1983 press conference. It kinda foreshadows Stan Love's 1990 conference, just with no Brian showing up.

Reference the "Was Brian Wilson Shanghaied?" article in Rolling Stone, I have it, from RS April 14th 1983:
It reads:
Was Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys snatched from his bed at Cedars-Sinia Hospital on January 16th and flown from California to Hawaii against his will as Carolyn Williams his former nurse-companion charges? Or did he split of his own volition to begin a much needed health-care program? That was one of the issues of contention last month in rock and roll's longest running burned-out case. In a press statement, Williams asserted that she was being tossed out of Wison's Malibu digs (where she'd been living since last April) without Brian's knowledge or approval. And in filing suit against Wilson's brothers, aides and accountant, she charged that forty-year old Brian had been shanghaied from Cedars-Sinia, where he was having a physical.
To counter the charges, Wilson held a press conference at the Kahala Hilton in Honolulu. "We are trying to get rid of her, yes, so that we can sell the house," said the slimmed-down but spacey Beach Boy. Since arriving in Hawaii, Wilson has been under the constant care of Dr. Eugene Landy, the controversial behavior-modification therapist who treated Wilson in the mid-seventies. And group frontman Mike Love asserts that in the past month, Wilson has lost sixty pounds, stopped smoking and "was better than I'd seen him in six years. His attitude was very, very good." But maybe Brian said it all: "I don't know. It sure is wierd."

Thanks Ian, I dip in and out of your excellent book often. But this is a puzzle isn't it? No doubt a little story there, still to be uncovered. Looks Like I'll go back and amend those gig entries in 45worlds, highlighting the discrepancy from programme to advert.

See the Advert I mentioned above, on this link:
https://www.45worlds.com/live/listing/nc259530uk&rc=296748#296748

The Ian Rusten/Jon Stebbings 'The Beach Boys In Concert' book shows The Flame as supporting the Beach Boys on all their UK dates from November 19th to December 6th. However I have today come across a boxed advert in the Melody Maker (weekly music paper) gigs page, published in the last week of November which says:
"Peter Rice Agency announces THE FLAME at
28th November-Revolution
29th November Blaises
30th November Revolution
1st, 2nd 3rd, 4th December Revolution
5th December Marquee
6th December Blaises
Currently Touring with The Beach Boys"

These dates all coincide with The Beach Boys residencies at the Fiesta Clubs in Stockton and Sheffield.
Is it possible that The Flame didn't actually support the band at these residencies as the book suggests, and arranged all these London club gigs instead? If not it seems a very strange ad to place- both for its timing in the last week of November, and the wording 'Currently touring with The Beach Boys' in the advert.
Info welcomed please- thanks  

I have one or two issues and have entered them on the 45worlds (Magazine) site- theres several other BB fanzines from around the world I've enterd there too, but I have too many to have done them all.
Here's one:  https://www.45worlds.com/magazine/issue/friends-of-the-beach-boys-6
and here's another: https://www.45worlds.com/magazine/issue/celebrate-the-newsletter-3

All the 45worlds, and 45cat (for 7" singles) are well worth a look and maybe adding missing items/comments

Oddly, the clothing in the pictures of the CBS Convention, from Dark Star magazine, on this link
https://www.45worlds.com/live/listing/the-beach-boys-ballroom-grosvenor-house-hotel-park-lane-1977
are quite different to the picture above? And yes, Mike is still hatless.

Sorry, yes mrski, of course there are the Sunrays tracks. I was looking to track down some of the more obscure tracks, particularly from the '50's.   

Does anyone have a definitive list of Murry Wilson songs, released by other artists?
Looking for
Artist, label, format (45 or 78), year of release, a and b side credits (title, Cat No, writer(s) credit, producer etc). Any scans of the records would be even better.

So far I have identified and have some details (but not the full details) of tracks on singles by
The Four Flames (1951)
Hollywood's Four Flames (1952)
The Jets (1954)
The Tangiers (1955)
Mary Moultrie (1966)
Bob Williams and the Red Calendar Sextette (year unknown)
and an album track by Kris Arden.

NB Murry co-authored one or two of these tracks.(Those by Mary Moultrie and Kris Arden were written with T Parker)

Any more details welcomed, and any other missing tracks too- thanks

Here's a bit more background to that '68 tour
https://strawberryalarmclock.com/783/touring-beach-boys-buffalo-springfield/

If we aren’t to see this film again, and if it is of interest here, then these are my recollections from my single viewing- apologies if it’s not 100% accurate or in the wrong order.
It's December 1968 and the film starts with a BOAC plane landing at Heathrow and the sound of screaming fans ‘We want the Beach Boys’. The band disembark down the steps on to the tarmac and pose at the bottom for photos, a couple of their wives are also seen then disembarking (I'm sure I saw Annie). We see Dennis and Mike signing some autographs in the airport and then into black limos to be driven from the airport.
Once settled in their hotel we then see some rehearsal, very briefly, (mainly Dennis, shirtless) at the London Palladium, of Bluebirds Over The Mountain, their current release. A group of female fans are shown in the street mentioning thier favourite songs- several mention the latest single.
Each Beach Boy has their own featured spot in the film, and we first follow Bruce, coat over his shoulders, white trousers, walking up the steps out from the London Underground, opposite Big Ben and Parliament. Bruce’s voice-over says that he turns the corner to buy a newspaper at a newsstand and is recognised by three girls, who are then seen talking with him. He says he is polite and patient with fans, and signs autographs, but values his own time on tour. He is seen walking in Hyde Park while a group of horse riders go by and Bruce says this doesn’t happen in parks at home, and its much colder in England. He says he’d hope to live and work in England in the next year or two as he walks up into a bandstand in the Park and starts to conduct an imaginary band.
We then see the front of the Palladium at night with the Beach Boys hoarding and then see bottled drink set out on tables. In the Beach Boys dressing room we see the band getting changed into their white suits, bright coloured shirts and ties/cravats, and the general dressing room banter. The focus is on Al and we get a brief shot of a (Al’s?) backside mooning.    
There is some film of the band onstage at the Palladium, with a couple of songs dubbed over the footage
After the show we are back in the dressing room as the band change out of their stage suits. The band are seen in their underwear and Dennis (of course!) without his clothes.
The band are then seen walking along the Thames embankment, by a couple of pubs and some old town houses. They jump down onto the riverbank and get into a small rowing boat, guided by the elderly boatmen, all sit down except Dennis who spends his time randomly pointing into the air, as the boatman takes them out on the river. We see the band as they continue their walk along the embankment, Dennis pretending to fall into the river and the band all standing in an empty boat for a photo opportunity. The film cuts back to the Palladium where we see the bands equipment being hauled out of the venue and into waiting trucks. There is brief footage of the streets around London.
Next, we see the band in Scotland walking past cannon on a castle ramparts and the focus is a short feature on Alan, wearing a Tam O’ Shanter hat and musing on voice-over about the great places being a Beach Boy takes him. There is some footage, presumably of the Odeon, Glasgow concert before we see the band plus entourage at a huge table in a hotel having a meal. There is much playing at the table- Alan picking nervously at a whole cooked fish he has been served in a deep dish. We see Mike, sat next to Dennis, take Dennis’ wine glass and tip all Dennis’ wine into his own glass to drink. We see Bruce sat next to Carl take a sip of wine and spit it out on the table onto Carl’s hand (Carl pulls a face). Meanwhile the tour management (man in a black suit?) spends time on a phone nearby.
As the tour continues into Europe we next focus on Dennis, who is lying across a seat in a train and trying to get some sleep. We hear him ‘thinking aloud’ on voiceover (about being tired, I think) and lighting a cigarette and scratching his itchy irritated nose with his hand.
We then briefly see some city sightseeing (mainly of the concert hall if I recall correctly) as the band head into mainland Europe for dates in Holland, Belgium and Germany before we find Carl in his hotel bed yawning, stretching and being served breakfast in bed, walking out onto the hotel balcony (its cold so he shoots back in) and then walking out in the snow into the hotel grounds- we hear him musing in voice-over about the extensive hotel grounds and the lake- or more of a pond as he points out. (This footage is used for a Wake The World promo film I have seen). I guess this is in Germany.
We see the rehearsal for a German TV Show shoot, looking at the camera monitors in the control room (Bluebirds Over The Mountain for Beat Club I think). There is then some live concert hall footage.
The film ends with the band sightseeing in Paris, where Mike is featured and his voice-over talks about the famous ‘Loovree’ Gallery and how this sounds like the British word Loo (for WC) – well it amuses him at least.  On the tour there were no dates played in Paris, or France come to that (the proposed Olympia gig was cancelled due to poor ticket sales apparently, and another gig elsewhere was substituted)
There are then credits that roll at the end- I can’t recall any of them, but the filming is done by Vic Kettle. The film ran to just under 55 minutes.
I have seen some snippets from this film over the years, but such a shame this artefact isn’t available in its entirety. Yes its rather dated now, but of its time at the end of the swinging 60's it’s a fascinating glimpse of the band that we never get to see.

Managed to watch it just once- and now its gone!

Great footage of the band off duty. Including one or two unexpectedly candid shots!
Includes film of the band in Paris at the end, although they played no dates in France on this December tour.

I've now found and added the second photo from the photoshoot here
http://www.45worlds.com/memorabilia/item/nc322538de
 

Regarding the Live In London recordings, in an interview played recently on BBC Radio 4, following his death, recording engineer Geoff Emerick said that the sound of the London Palladium Beach Boys show that he recorded was terrible as the Beach Boys drummer was too loud. So he recorded the band again at their Finsbury Park Astoria shows and this time put the drummer behind a glass screen and got a perfect recording.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001s05
Geoff Emerick best known for his studio work with The Beatles of course

This label seems to have released a few items for RSD this year- including the Beach Boys item. Here is the label's website: http://www.1960s.london/

The German H&V 45 picture sleeve, using a German concert photo also shows Dennis sporting this haircut

Does anyone know any details of this bootleg 45. It was limited to only 10 copies apparently. Surely one of the oddest releases.
http://www.45cat.com/record/sd001xb is the link, then go to my 2nd March 2017 comment and click on the word 'This' to see the item in question
Wouldn't It Be Nice (The One Is One DV Drone Mix), a one sided 7" single in a 'Charles Manson' sleeve based on the Dutch 'Bluebirds...' Capitol pic sleeve.

Just seen this advert for this April release:
https://www.spincds.com/coming-soon/wave-of-sunshine-9cd-box