This album was Wilson's follow-up to PET SOUNDS, you remember, the album that influenced Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Smile is inarguably the most long awaited album in modern pop history. It's been more than 37 years since the title first appeared on a label release schedule in January 1967. But Smile never made its initial release date. Today, this album is not a mere reconstruction of past performances, but something entirely new, a serious summation of a project that has been gestating for nearly four decades.