Brian Wilson, Al Jardine Disavow Donald Trump’s Beach Boys Fundraiser | RS News 10/19/20

Описание: Brian Wilson and Al Jardine have disavowed Donald Trump’s Beach Boys campaign fundraiser, held on Sunday in Newport Beach, California, and headlined by fellow founding member Mike Love’s touring version of the band.

“We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach. Zero,” Wilson and Jardine told Variety through a spokesperson. “We didn’t even know about it and were very surprised to read about it in the Los Angeles Times.”

The last time all surviving members of the Beach Boys toured together was for their 50th-anniversary trek in 2012. After its conclusion, Love and Bruce Johnston, who joined the Beach Boys in 1965, chose to continue touring under the licensed Beach Boys name with new touring members of the group, which has performed for Trump events in the past. This past February, both Wilson and Jardine officially signed on to a Change.org petition urging a boycott of the touring Beach Boys after Love’s group booked a headlining gig at the Safari Club International Convention in Reno, Nevada, where the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was to be the keynote speaker.

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