“…a year later, The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper, an album that owed a clear debt to Pet Sounds…”

YES—let us not forget the sequence of events! I think Paul especially wanted to respond to Brian’s inspiration.

Thanks for the tribute to Brian and especially to “Smile”.

When he was three, our son was so enchanted with the later version that when we played the concert dvd, he put his ear right next to the tv speaker for the entire event.