Transcript: Profile: Brian Wilson completes the music project "Smile"

MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
09-24-2004
Profile: Brian Wilson completes the music project "Smile"

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.

It's called the greatest album that never was, The Beach Boys' "Smile." Thirty-eight years ago, Brian Wilson was trying out a revolutionary recording technique. Bits and pieces were recorded at different times with different musicians in different studios, then quilted together. He used this form of modular recording to put together The Beach Boys' million-selling single, "Good Vibrations." That took six months. Then Brian Wilson applied the ...

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