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...fifth grade, I had to play a trumpet solo in front of the whole school, and completely choked. I quit band and renounced music. It’s funny—this solo that caused me to get so upset was a Charlie Chaplin piece called “Smile?...
...college students wore Mission of Burma t-shirts and sweaters screened with the cover to OK Computer, in some sort of indirect homage to Wilson. Not to be outdone, the baby boomers sported shirts with the original album cover to Smile??€”the covers that were printed by the thousands in 1967, but never packaged with a Smile LP and never sold...
...next generation of Smile??€™s myth is now hanging in a bedroom somewhere...
...impatience festered within the band. Wilson abandoned and disowned the album, retreating to his bed for the better part of the next decade, where he became a mess of drug addiction and obesity. The Beach Boys stumbled out with Smiley Smile, a watered-down and vastly quieter echo of Smile??€™s original vision. The Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper became a landmark event, and their status atop the rock world was secure. The Beach Boys, lost without their creative force, slipped into artistic irrelevance and nostalgia tours...
...semester. You’ve got a lot of cash sitting in your checking account from this summer’s job. You earned enough for pizza here and there, a couple of movies and even a few dates with the girl in the quad with a killer smile??€”if you’re lucky...