'Our influences are of a religious nature': the Beach Boys on Smile

In our regular visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we reprint an interview with the Beach Boys by Mike Grant that appeared in Rave magazine in February 1967.At the time, the band still thought their next release would be an album called Smile, but it was never completed. A reconstructed version of the record is finally to be released as The Smile Sessions this NovemberFor the Beach Boys, '67 should be the year of new sounds...

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