It was, at the time, an album of what might have been, but Smiley Smile is nonetheless a fascinating chapter in the story of the Beach Boys. The album made its US album chart debut on September 30 ...

After ‘Pet Sounds,’ Brian Wilson made a move toward minimalism on The Beach Boys follow-up album ‘Smiley Smile,’ released on September 18, 1967. A number of factors led Brian Wilson away ...

A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE Sessions,” a two-disc set of tracks recorded by the Beach Boys during 1966-67 for the famous “lost” album that ...

Brian Wilson might not have always got things right when he was in the Beach Boys, but the band were arguably worse off when left to their own devices.