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The last laugh

An exhaustive oral history graced by a friend’s loving touch.
The last laugh
SMiLE: The Rise, Fall, And Resurrection Of Brian Wilson David Leaf OMNIBUS PRESS. £25 “SEE, DEBBIE,” Eva Easton-Leaf tells a friend at the start of an essay in her husband’s oral history of Brian Wilson’s reconstruction of and through SMiLE, “you can love someone enough.” Easton-Leaf and her longtime friend and former roommate, Debbie Keil-Leavitt, are sharing a bottle of champagne, soon after the world premiere of Wilson’s 37-year-old “teenage symphony to god” in 2004. Keil-Leavitt was a steadfast confidant to Wilson during the ’70s, after he’d dropped SMiLE to save his family band from the alleged terror of his artistic ambition and vision. David Leaf was a Wilson devotee who married Keil-Leavitt’s roommate and spent decades wondering to Wilson, insistently if carefully, “What happened to SMiLE?” That little scene,…
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