Brian Wilson

The once and future Smile

by James Leonard

posted 10/1/2004

In the beginning was Brian Wilson's "Good Vibrations." Given its world premiere by Wilson's Beach Boys in 1966 in Hill Auditorium, the song sold a million copies within a week of its release, and 16 million in six months. From "Good Vibrations" flowed Wilson's Smile, his self-proclaimed "teenage symphony to God," which

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