History
Work on what would have been the original Beach Boys version of Smile began in 1966, following the release of their album Pet Sounds, and based on the recording mode of their single "Good Vibrations". The original artwork and cover design was done by Frank J. Holmes.
The original failure to complete Smile has been attributed to several factors: resistance from the other members of the band (especially Mike Love) and Capitol Records; technical recording difficulties (many of Brian's ideas were so inventive and new that the technology to record his true vision did not exist); Wilson's growing dissatisfaction (and increasing paranoia) with the project itself; and Wilson's mental breakdown into severe depression, which went unchecked for decades.
Read more about this topic: Smile (Brian Wilson album)
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)