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 ...

Curiously, only one of the original Beach Boys knew how to surf ... but suffered a breakdown trying to shape ‘Smile’ into the masterpiece he was hearing in his head (it was finally completed ...

Brian Wilson once reportedly described the songs on Smile, the Beach Boys album that he never got to finish making, as “teenage symphonies to God.” That’s a great turn of phrase. But for all ...