A week after the Disney album, on Nov. 1, Capitol/EMI releases “The SMiLE ... live shows and possibly do some recording, and Love has voiced a hope to write some new songs with his cousin, Wilson.

The bookshops are awash with books about the Beach Boys, so do we need another one? Well if you are interested in the mythology of the band’s legendary ...

SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, And Resurrection Of Brian Wilson is Leaf ’s obsessive oral history of that famous slow-motion triumph. Nearly 40 decades after his first Wilson biography, Leaf’s bank of sources ...