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Founding Beach Boys Member Al Jardine. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n
An original member of iconic United States surf rock band The Beach Boys will perform in Dunedin later this year.<\/p>\n
Al Jardine and his 11-piece Pet Sounds Band – which he put together with his late bandmate Brian Wilson<\/a> – will celebrate 60 years of Beach Boys music at the Dunedin Town Hall on Sunday, July 5.<\/p>\n Wilson and Jardine formed The Beach Boys in 1961.<\/p>\n The show is set to feature classic songs like\u00a0California Girls,\u00a0Help Me Rhonda,\u00a0Wouldn\u2019t It Be Nice,\u00a0Good Vibrations,\u00a0God Only Knows\u00a0and\u00a0Don\u2019t Worry Baby.<\/p>\n Al Jardine, co-founder of The Beach Boys, on stage at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n Jardine was a founding member of The Beach Boys. He met band members Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson and Mike Love after moving to California in the mid-1950s.<\/p>\n He was the lead vocalist on their hit song\u00a0Help Me Rhonda.<\/p>\n Al Jardine and\u00a0The\u00a0Pet Sounds Band will play at the Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch on\u00a0July 4. The tour then moves to Dunedin (Town Hall) on July 5 and New Plymouth (TSB Stadium) on July 8. Tickets will be available on\u00a0ticketek.co.nz<\/a>\u00a0at 11am on March 2.<\/p>\n -Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founding Beach Boys Member Al Jardine. Photo: Supplied An original member of iconic United States surf rock band…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-300623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Al](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gettyimages-1577651890.jpg\")
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