I’m enamored with this short tale of Beatles fandom: Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame was driving down the road with a campanion in his car in the late 1960s when he heard a new Beatles song come on the radio. Wilson had been in the studio working on the legendary, unfinished Beach Boys “Smile” album. As his radio whined out the tune to the new song, Strawberry Fields Forever, Wilson pulled his car over and turned up the radio. He looked over to his companion and said “they’ve beat me to it.” The Smile album was shelved shortly thereafter and Wilson couldn’t bring himself to complete it for the next fourty years.
And subsequently, the entirety of the Smile album isn’t as good as the Strawberry Fields Forever double-single.
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