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TIL Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys was psychologically scarred by his failure to complete "Smile", the band's follow-up to 1966's "Pet Sounds". After he premiered the finished album in 2004, to a 10-minute standing ovation, he rocked back and forth on-stage, exclaiming to a band mate: "We did it!"

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