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  • Nonesuch To Release Legendary 'Smile' Album (Brian Wilson without the Beach Boys)

    05/19/2004 10:49:55 PM PDT · by weegee · 12 replies · 257+ views
    Billboard Magazine ^ | May 18, 2004, 10:25 AM ET | -- Troy Carpenter, N.Y, Edited By Jonathan Cohen.
    Nearly four decades after it was initially slated for release on Capitol, Brian Wilson's "lost" Beach Boys masterpiece "SMiLE" will finally be heard by the record-buying public. A newly recorded version of the album is to be released Sept. 28 worldwide by Nonesuch Records. The new "SMiLE" was produced by Wilson and features the pop icon's 10-member touring band along with the Stockholm Strings and Horns ensemble. Wilson first revisited the project in November 2003 along with lyricist Van Dyke Parks and keyboardist Darian Sahanaja, reviewing the original 37-year-old tapes with the intent to prepare a version of the album...