Equally long-awaited and legendary, music from the "great lost Beach Boys album" Smile -- titled The Smile Sessions -- has been confirmed by EMI for a July 12 release via Capitol. Taken from more than thirty hours of tape from the original 1966/67 studio recordings, the songs have been assembled by longtime Beach Boys engineer Mark Linnett and pop historian Alan Boyd with help from Brian Wilson, iconic songwriter the chief creative catalyst for the band. The project has been in the work for years but has never seen completion until now. Wilson recorded a live version of Smile in 2004 with his touring band for the Nonesuch label and Linnett confirms that they're using Wilson's album as a "blueprint" for the original recordings, many of which needed serious work due to their incomplete state.
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