Mike Love
Mike Love
Michael Edward "Mike" Loveis an American musician, singer, songwriter, and activist who is a member and co-founder of the Beach Boys. For most of the Beach Boys' career, Love has been one of the band's lyricists, contributing to each of their studio albums...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth15 March 1941
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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Sometimes I listen to '60s or oldies stations to see if they're going to play a Beach Boys song.
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Maybe out of the fifty top Beach Boys songs, I was probably the co-writer and singing lead on forty of them.
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We get really busy between Memorial Day and Labor Day because there are all the fairs and amphitheaters and festivals going on all over the place, ... The Beach Boys are kind of synonymous with summer.
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The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
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The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.
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What we look for when we need to find someone who can fit in with our music, the vocals and the harmonies and the way they blend are very important to us because if you listen to Beach Boys music, the harmonies, not only are the notes being sung, but there's a blend to it. The voices have to blend.
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We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries.
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The name 'The Beach Boys' is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as 'The Beach Boys.' With it, I've felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.
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The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.
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Ever since our Surfin' Safari' began in the early 1960's, the relations'hip with The Beach Boys and water has been synonymous. 'Surfin', 'Catch a Wave', and 'Surfin' USA' are songs which capture the feelings of being out in the water without a care in the world, living a dream so many long to live no matter where they are from.
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They have some revealing insights into the intricacies, what went on behind the scenes of the Beach Boys, ... I mean, everybody knows about hit records. But how we survived, what we went through, is pretty interesting.
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By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
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If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas.
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On a personal level, I would like my loved ones to know that I have always done the best that I could to demonstrate my love, and worked hard to provide them with a sense of security. On a more global level, I would like to see that my efforts, whether with the Beach Boys or as an individual, achieve as much benefit to humanity as possible during my lifetime. Peace and love!