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The answer to the question haunting every Beach Boys fan -- Why was "Smile" abandoned in 1967? -- comes relatively late in David Leaf's paean to Brian Wilson, "Beautiful Dreamer." Wilson, seated at ...

I couldn't get the tune of "Beautiful Dreamer" out of my head the other day and kept humming it. I tried to remember the words but kept repeating the same verses without getting the essence of the ...