Background Collapse of Smile

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the beach boys voted world s top vocal group 1966 in readers poll conducted uk magazine nme, ahead of beatles , rolling stones. point, brian wilson had been pressured assuming role benefactor band , families, added hesitancy in delivering product had potential great commercial failure. wilson had exhibited varying signs of poor mental health before point, such @ end of 1964 suffered nervous breakdown while on flight houston. december 1966, wilson had completed of album s backing tracks. when beach boys returned tour of britain, confused new music had recorded , new coterie of interlopers surrounded him. included smile lyricist van dyke parks, manager david anderle, band publicist derek taylor, journalist paul williams, wilson s friend lorren daro (formerly loren schwartz), singer danny hutton, writer jules siegel, writer michael vosse, , photographer paul jay robbins. anderle, informally known mayor of hip , notable, , became business partner beach boys.


once wilson missed january 1967 deadline, concentrated on heroes , villains , vega-tables potential singles. throughout first half of 1967, album s release date repeatedly postponed brian tinkered recordings, experimenting different takes , mixes, unable or unwilling supply completed version of album. audio engineer , smile sessions co-producer mark linett speculated wilson not have finished album because ambitions unfeasible pre-digital technology; accordingly: in 1966, [assembling pieces] meant physically cutting pieces of tape , sticking them — how editing done in days — time-consuming , labor-intensive process, , importantly made hard experiment infinite number of possible ways assemble puzzle. sessions co-producer alan boyd shared same view, stating tape editing have been unbearably arduous, difficult , tedious task.


carl wilson reflected: in middle of this, brian said, can t this. re going make homespun version of instead. re going take easy. ll in pool , sing. or let s go in gym , our parts. smiley smile. decision relieved brian, felt smiley smile era great ... didn t have paranoia feelings . brian stated himself had requested capitol records keep smile unreleased: didn t tell them how long. told them while. several months after project s collapse, memoir written siegel published in article cheetah magazine entitled goodbye surfing, hello god! . many of project s subsequent myths , legends later derive single article.








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