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Brian Wilson: Unfinished Symphony

Rob Chapman, MOJO, February 2002

While his bandmates toured the surfin' hits around the world, Brian Wilson was holed up in Hollywood creating an ambitious symphonic paean to God and the American way. Then the group came home. Rob Chapman tells the story of Smile, rock's legendary lost album.

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