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Until September, no official Smile album had ever existed. Brian Wilson made more than fifty trips to the recording studio in 1966 and 1967, intending to record the follow-up to 1966’s Pet Sounds, but nothing came of it. The Beach Boys, with Wilson now an indifferent participant, moved on to other projects, and would be increasingly marginalized as has-beens in the decades to come...
Over the years, the incomplete Smile recording sessions became available as bootlegs; some of the songs found their way into later Beach Boys albums and compilations. Fans compiled song orders as they saw fit. Books speculated about the causes (drugs, depression, family strife) of Wilson’s unraveling. Smile was frequently called the greatest unreleased album in history—a judgment undoubtedly influenced by its rich back story...
...first indication that Smile was not to remain an asterisk in pop history came in 2003, when Wilson (now severed from the Beach Boys) announced his intent to reconstruct and play the album in concerts across Europe. The first of those, in London, attracted instant claims of “timelessness,” both for the concert and what was increasingly seen as a new ordering and orchestration of Smile itself...
BRIAN WILSON, leader of the Beach Boys, when asked what he would change about his life...
...What the hell do I do now? I still want a companion.'" Mynchenberg finally tried a method that he never dreamed would suit him: online dating. He joined four e-dating services, which he refers to as "friendship clubs." Every morning in his waterfront home in Ormond Beach, Fla., Mynchenberg sits down at his computer and sifts through the profiles of dozens of women, searching for an intelligent 69-to-79-year-old Floridian with whom he can share conversation, travels and intimacy--but not marriage...