The Smile Sessions
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The Smile Sessions is a compilation album and box set recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 31, 2011, by Capitol Records. The set is the follow-up to The Pet Sounds Se
The reunited Beach Boys in 2012, performing "Heroes and Villains" during their 50th anniversary tour
Smile (The Beach Boys album)
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Smile is an unfinished album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, conceived as the follow-up to their 1966 album Pet Sounds. The project—a concept album involving themes of Americana, humor, yout
The Smile Sessions
…The set is the follow-up to The Pet Sounds Sessions (1997), this time focusing on the abandoned recordings from the band's unfinished 1966–1967 album Smile. It features comprehensive session highlights and outtakes, with the first 19 tracks comprising a hypothetical version of the completed Smile album…
From left: Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher, Tony Asher, and Brian Wilson at a Pet Sounds recording session in early 1966.
The Smile recording period coincided with the late 1966 Sunset Strip riots (pictured).
According to Van Dyke Parks, Smile was partly intended to reclaim popular music from the influence of British acts like the Beatles (pictured in 1964).
Wilson stated that his understanding of ego and humor drew on the writings of Arthur Koestler (pictured)