The Concert in Central Park album was released. The film was later released for sale in VHS, CED Videodisc, Laserdisc, and DVD formats. It sold more than 50,000 copies in the US, where it earned Gold certification for a music longform video. It was broadcast on PBS on August 22, 1988, and again on August 8, 2015. The concert and recordings were positively received by music critics. Stephen Holden praised the performance in "The New York Times" the day after the concert; he subsequently praised the live album in "Rolling Stone" magazine. He wrote that Simon and Garfunkel were successful in reviving their sound, that
The Beach Boys in Concert joined, among others, with "Holland" out-take "We Got Love", which makes its debut here on a Beach Boys album. "The Beach Boys in Concert" (Brother/Reprise 2RS 6484) hit No. 25 in the US during a chart stay of 24 weeks. This is the only live album and the final album on which Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar appeared as official members, as both departed the band's line-up in late 1973 and late 1974 respectively. Partial credits from Craig Slowinski. The original version of "The Beach Boys in Concert" was a single disc set. The track lineup was as follows: The