Looks like Tomovoz missed a good one:
DownUnder's Sun:
Lost pop 'masterpiece' unveiled
By Peter Walker in London
25feb04
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Backed by an 18-strong group, Wilson - now 61, frail and greying - has taken to the stage of the capital's Royal Festival Hall for a week of shows, playing for the very first time an album billed as the Beach Boys' equivalent of Sergeant Pepper by transatlantic rivals The Beatles.
The performances have left many critics transfixed. "It might be said straight away that it was an evening that validated claims made on behalf of Wilson's genius," gushed The Observer newspaper - and fans ecstatic.
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However, two years ago, a now largely recovered Wilson toured the Pet Soundsalbum to great acclaim before working again with his much younger backing group to piece together Smile.
The result, first revealed at the opening concert on Friday, is a lush, dense and often intensely beautiful 45-minute suite of songs, using, alongside the usual guitars and drums, a string and horn section and more exotic instruments ranging from a ukulele to a swanee whistle.
At Sunday's show the sell-out audience - many of a similar age to Wilson - greeted the performance with tearful reverence and repeated standing ovations.
Fans who watched a still-vulnerable Wilson sitting behind the protection of a piano he never played, his voice at times cracked, were fulsome.
"A true genius and it was simply an awesome privilege to be there," wrote one fan, Paul Knox, on Wilson's Internet site.
"This night has confirmed for you what we fans have known all along: that Smile was and is the quintessential pop masterpiece of all time," gushed Jerry Boyd after the first night.
der Brucer (seems like Aussie stringers have all the fun)