Critic's Notebook: 'The Smile Sessions' puts puzzle together

The new box set includes conversations and recordings from the Beach Boys' work on the mid-1960s project.Forty-five years ago this week at United Western Recorders, near Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks, along with a radio interviewer, were hanging out in a studio with a grand piano, a microphone and a work in progress called "Heroes and Villains."

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