25 and finds Wilson covering ... These are great songs by great writers, so I wanted to do them right.” A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE Sessions ...

until Wilson released Brian Wilson Presents Smile in 2004. While making the song was a painful process, it still possesses a sense of whimsy and wonder. "Surf's Up" may have surf in the title ...

Brian Wilson might not have always got things right when he was in the Beach Boys, but the band were arguably worse off when left to their own devices.