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The SMiLE You Send Out Returns to You: The Story of Brian Wilson's Great Lost Masterpiece

Tim Meade, Rock's Backpages, October 2011

WE ALL KNOW THE STORY of the Beach Boys' SMiLE. After Pet Sounds, Brian set out to make a "teenage symphony to God" that would be the assemblage of "feels", individual pieces of music that he would put together to create a "pocket symphony".

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