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Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times I've forgotten it"

The late Brian Wilson on carrying the legend of the Beach Boys, Macca’s tears, and how soft drinks messed him up for years

Louder

“Thom was like ‘No, get rid of all of that - you’ve lost what’s good about it!’”: Mark Pritchard tells us how he and Thom Yorke made the sublime Tall Tales

The Warp Records’ heavyweight joined forces with Radiohead and the Smile’s main man to craft a bewitching document of 21st century anxieties

MusicRadar

“I just remember her playing with a pick. I didn't care how she played, as long as she played the notes right”: Brian Wilson left his mark on the bass world through studio musicians, especially Carol Kaye, who he requested play his basslines note-for-note

In a rare interview, The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson reflected on bass playing, studio craft and his 2004 masterpiece, Smile

Guitar World

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Lily Allen plays guitar with her toes as she returns to selling feet pics on OnlyFans

The Smile singer, 38, had not posted on the adult subscription service since September

Evening Standard

Lily Allen 'quits' OnlyFans following split with husband David Harbour

The Smile singer previously claimed that she made more money from selling pictures of her feet on the site than from her music with Spotify streams

Evening Standard

"We look so young. We were so young": Brian May's guide to rarely-seen Queen photos, from before they were famous

Sir Brian May talks us through a series of previously unseen photographs from Queen's early days as featured in the new Queen I Collector’s Edition

Louder

Smile 2 Review: "Naomi Scott demonstrates her talents with a raw, no-holds-barred performance in this largely successful horror sequel"

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Smile 2 director talks the horror sequel's brutal, one-shot, "really surprising" opening scene: "It wasn't going to feel like anything we did in the first film"

Exclusive: Writer/director Parker Finn says he wanted to do something completely different with Smile 2's one-shot opening scene

Total Film

“There seems to be an idea among guitarists that something as remarkable as a box that creates a perfect echo is old, played out or overused”: Why Jonny Greenwood downsized his rig to just a guitar, amp and delay pedal to write the Smile’s new album

The sound of the Radiohead offshoot’s latest record stemmed from a challenge the famously tech-savvy guitarist set for himself – and his renewed love of delay

Guitar World

The Smile: Cutouts review – as intricately crafted as Radiohead but with added groove

The trio’s second album this year is full of foreboding but the drumming of Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner continues to provide a different dynamic

The Guardian - UK

The Smile review, Cutouts: Expansive, brilliant and surprisingly fun

Who needs a Radiohead ‘reunion’ when the band’s side projects are as fruitful as this?

The Independent UK

Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood gives fans hope for the band’s future

Bandmembers have been working on their respective solo projects since the release of Radiohead’s most recent album, ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’, in 2016

The Independent UK

“I played the slide part of Layla with Eric Clapton… 15 minutes later I was back in the office making copies”: Brian Wilson guitarist Probyn Gregory on living an incredible double life, between desk job and rock star

His cautious career approach has given him the chance to play Jeff Beck’s rig, avoid taking a doomed TV gig, bring Pet Sounds back to the stage – and help Wilson revive the Smile project he’d run away from in 1967

Guitar World

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood in 'intensive care' with upcoming The Smile gigs cancelled

The Radiohead guitarist ‘will soon return home’ according to a statement from The Smile, which said the band has been told to cancel upcoming gigs

Evening Standard

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“Mercifully he is now out of danger and will soon return home”: Jonny Greenwood hospitalized for emergency treatment, forcing The Smile to cancel tour dates

The Radiohead offshoot have postponed eight headline and festival gigs across August while Greenwood recovers

Louder

The Smile cancel European tour due to serious Jonny Greenwood illness

The Radiohead side-project have scrapped all dates to give the guitarist time to recover

MusicRadar

“These huge machines, created centuries ago, were tackling the same challenges of synthesis and sampling and sound reproduction that we struggle with today": Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood is bringing church organ music to the modular masses

But, says the thinking fan's rock star, “I think a lot about Never Mind the Bollocks"

The Guardian - UK

Jonny Greenwood: ‘I’m still arsing around on instruments like when I was a kid’

The Radiohead guitarist changed rock music, then conquered the world of soundtracks. But can he revolutionise the church organ with an eight-hour composition?

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Charity given eviction notice 'thrilled' to find new home following fundraiser success

Smile London & Essex has secured a new site three times bigger than its last one

Evening Standard

East London charity faces closure unless it finds new home

Smile London and Essex - a charity that supports thousands of low-income families - is hoping to raise £20,000 in the next week to rent a new premises

The Guardian - UK

The Smile review – Thom Yorke on jolly and utterly joyful form

Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner’s pandemic-born band fly free from expectations, taking in everything from krautrock to Afrobeat

The Guardian - UK

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – agile, tuneful second album

With strings and psychedelia added to the mix, Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s ever-evolving side project feels as dynamic now as their day job

The Guardian - UK

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing

Despite all the lyrical disquiet, there is a lovely sense of ease to the Smile’s second album – and some of the best music Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have put their names to in at least a decade

Louder

“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

Total Film

Smile 2 casts Aladdin's Naomi Scott as the horror sequel's lead

Scott takes over from Sosie Bacon

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