Mike Love

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Michael Edward Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys.

Love has been one of the band's vocalists and lyricists throughout their career, contributing to each of their studio albums and appearing as their frontman for live performances, often characterized by his nasal and occasionally baritone singing.

Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson Wilson Wilson's cousin, and is often regarded as a villain in the company's history, with a reputation that confirms it is true: "I will always be the Antichrist." "Love was one of Wilson's closest friends during the Beach Boys' peak in the 1960s."

Wilson–Love songs "Fun, Fun, Fun" (1964), "California Girls" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966).

Love's songs primarily represented surfing, cars, and passion, which contributed to fashion pop culture's portrayal of the "California Dream."

Love became a teacher of Transcendental Meditation (TM) under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1968 and became a TM teacher in 1971.

The event inspired his songs to explore astrology, meditation, politics, and ecology.

Love began recording solo albums in the late 1970s, the first one being published in 1981: Looking Back with Love.

Love and the other founding members of the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

The song "Kokomo," co-written by Love, debuted at number one in the United States and was nominated for a Grammy in the same year. Love's contributions to the company's success didn't appear until the 1990s, when he successfully sued for writing credits on 35 songs.

He is still uncredited for two other 44 Beach Boys songs he allegedly co-authored.

Love was granted a lifetime pass to tour as the Beach Boys with Bruce Johnston in 1998, shortly after Carl Wilson's death, while their surviving bandmates embarked on solo tours.

They've since reunited for the band's 50th anniversary.

Personal life

Love has been married to Jacquelyne Piesen since 1994 and has eight children, two with Piesen and six from his four previous marriages. He lives in Incline Village, Nevada, on Lake Tahoe's northern shore, as of 2015. Love is a vegetarian who practices and teaches TM, and she partakes in traditional Hindu ceremonies.

Love is the brother of former NBA basketball player Stan Love, Margaret Martini harpist, and Kevin Love's uncle. Shawn Marie Love, a woman who was engaged to Dennis Wilson in his final days, was charged with Love's daughter, an allegation that Love denied.

Love claims himself a liberal, though some people mistakenly identify him as a conservative in the 1980s after a photographed handshake between him and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Despite the close friendship between the Beach Boys and George H. W. Bush for many years, the band raised funds for the TM-backed Natural Law Party in 1992. Love revealed that he was moving his vote from Bush to NLP candidate John Hagelin at the time.

Love lauded Donald Trump for his "support of music in the past" and was present at the signing of the Music Modernization Act in October. Following Trump's inauguration, the Beach Boys were invited to participate in the festivities for Trump's inauguration, and Love immediately replied positively, saying that Trump had "been a friend for a long time." Does that mean I agree with everything he says? No. However, if we were asked [to attend his inauguration], I'm sure we would." Rather, Love's Beach Boys performed at the Texas State Society's "Black Tie & Boots" Inaugural Ball on the evening of Trump's inauguration day.

After it was revealed that Love's Beach Boys would perform at a Safari Club International convention in Reno, Nevada, in February 2020, Brian Wilson and Jardine's official social media pages encouraged followers to avoid the band's music on animal rights grounds. Despite online demonstrations, the concert went on; Love said that his organisation has always promoted "freedom of expression as a fundamental tenet of our liberties as Americans." Love's Beach Boys decided to participate as the headliner in a high-dollar fundraiser for Trump's reelection bid in Newport Beach in October 2020. Wilson and Jardine sluggishly condemned the use of the Beach Boys' name and music at the festival, saying, "We have absolutely nothing to do with the Trump benefit today in Newport Beach." Zero." Love and other performers appeared at Mar-a-Lago's New Year's Eve festival last year.

Love has long been a promoter of environmental causes, and he was one of the speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and 2000 in Washington, DC. He was instrumental in the creation of StarServe ("Students Taking Action and Responsibility to Serve"), which enlisted high-profile celebrities to encourage America's youth to help their families help support their communities. He also founded the Love Foundation, which supports national environmental and educational initiatives. Love personally donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina and raised the money by the foundation. He has served as a member of the Lake Tahoe School board of directors in Incline Village, Nevada, and was responsible for raising over $1 million to support the school.

Love contributed to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's More Hope For The Holidays compilation in 2010, as well as contributing his own poem "Santa's Goin' To Kokomo" in 2010. On the album, he appears alongside Weezer, Brandi Carlile, and Creedence Clearwater Revisited. Proceeds support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He appeared at a benefit concert for the Children of the Californias, which raised one million dollars to fund the construction of three new surgical suites. Love, a Beach Boys team, joined Operation Smile to raise funds for those in need of cleft lip and palate reconstruction surgery. He was honoured with the "Seven Generations Award" in May 2013 for his decades of investment in education and national service.

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Career

In the first years of the fledgling garage band that developed from Pendleton to the Beach Boys, Love ruled saxophone. He also established himself, alongside neighbor Gary Usher, local DJ Roger Christian, and others as a collaborator with Brian Wilson in the band's original compositions. Love took inspiration from Chuck Berry's lyrics, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant's books, including "Devoted to You" and "All I Have to Do is Dream" to write several of the Beach Boys' songs. "They were both the fun, descriptive pictorial vignettes as well as the more sweet, romantic, and devotional songs," he said. ... I was always interested in poetry, even before that and more fundamental than that.

"It's not well known," Carl Wilson said, "but Michael did a lot of the arrangements, but it's not widely known." Whether you go boo-boop or bom-did-did-did-did-did, he'd bring out the funkier options. Because it will change the whole rhythm, the entire color, and tone of it," the artist says. Love, a huge fan of doop combos, is also responsible for persuading Brian to listen to black R&B songs, according to him. Brian Wilson may not have become 'Brian Wilson,' without "Mike's R&B clout," according to writer Geoffrey Himes.

Brian Wilson converted the Beach Boys away from beach-themed music in early 1964. Love told a Melody Maker reporter that he and his bandmates wanted to move beyond surf music and avoid being stuck on the band's laurels, which was not the case in November. He is also responsible for the naming of their album Pet Sounds (1966). Love replied, "I guess Pet Sounds... because of the orchestrations and arrangement." Asked for his favorite Beach Boys album in a 1994 interview. "It's not just about cars or girls or school, it's about feelings."

Alternatively, Love has been described as opposing the organization's new direction. Love owed a reputation as "one of rock & roll's most popular assholes" as a result of such allegations.

Love commented in a 2007 interview,

Love dismissed the majority of the allegations concerning his reservations about the Smile album: "I never said anything negative about any of the tracks." I admit to wanting to make a commercially successful pop album, so I may have criticized some of Smile's lyrics. Smile was "good stuff" and "a beautifully made album," Love wrote in Pop Chronicles in 1970, adding that "it'll come out, eventually." Smile's demise was not due to Love's reaction to the lyrics, not because of Love's resistance to the lyrics, according to Brian. However, Van Dyke Parks, the album's lyricist, accused Love with "a halt" on the record. "Don't fuck with the formula," Love wrote in a 1971 Rolling Stone article. The quote was repeatedly repeated in slew of books, essays, forums, and blogs over the years. Anderle later stated that his remarks regarding "the formula" had been misinterpreted. Love for the Beach Boys' 'December 1967 album Wild Honey, the group's first foray into R&B, has returned to co-writing with Brian.

Love said in 1978 that the organization's dissatisfaction with Capitol's promotional efforts had caused them to switch record companies in the late 1960s. "They did a good job for the first four or five years, but then they fell short of promoting the change, which would have been incredibly commercially responsible on their part, but they didn't ever do it." They were still promoting us as the nation's most popular surfing group in 1968 or 1969. How relevant was it after 'Good Vibrations,' Pet Sounds, Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley Smiley or Anything else? He wrote in his 2016 memoir that, unlike Brian, he was never worried about being taken seriously by critics and believed that detractors of their early songs displayed "elitism at its lowest": "elitism at its lowest point: because so many people love our music, there must be something wrong with it."

Love became one of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's influential teachings in late 1967, the Beatles' public support of his Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. Love and his companions attended a Maharishi lecture in Paris in December, and were moved by the simplicity and efficiency of his meditation process as a way to achieve inner peace. The Beach Boys attended the Maharishi's public appearances in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts, after which Love was welcomed to join the Beatles at his training seminar in Rishikesh, northern India. Love remained there from February 28 to March 15. Paul McCartney later recalled aiding Paul McCartney with the lyrics of "Back in the United States R." which was recorded for the Beatles' White Album (1968).

Love planned a concert tour in Rishikesh with the Beach Boys and Maharishi as co-headliners. Due to the poor audience numbers and the Maharishi's subsequent cancellation to fulfill film commitments, the tour, which began in May 1968, ended abruptly after five shows. Love wrote in his book "I take responsibility for an idea that didn't work." I don't regret it, but I don't regret it. I felt I could do some good for people who were lost, confused, or afraid, especially those who were young and hopeful but also vulnerable, and I was worried about a large number of us." Despite the tour's ignominy, the Beach Boys remained ardent supporters of the Maharishi and TM. In 1972, Love became a TM pioneer and later advanced to more advanced facilities, such as the TM-Sidhi Course.

Love wrote the words and music of many Beach Boys songs, including "Everyone's in Love with You" (1976) and "Sumahama" (1978). He co-founded the Band Celebration in 1978, which saw the success of the US Top 30 hit song "Almost Summer" co-written with Brian Wilson and Jardine. He released Looking Back With Love (1981), his first solo album, with production by Curt Boettcher.

The Beach Boys' 1988 hit "Kokomo," the band's only number one without Brian's presence. Love (along with "Kokomo" co-writers Scott McKenzie, Terry Melcher, and John Phillips) was nominated for a Golden Globe Award (1988) in the Original Song category (1988), and for "Kokomo" co-writers, and for "Kokomo" was nominated for a Grammy Award. Love was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, as well as the other founding members of the Beach Boys. Love gave a sarcastic speech at the induction ceremony, criticizing, among others, McCartney and Mick Jagger. Love replied, "I regret that I didn't meditate [earlier today]."

Love, along with Jardine and several Wilson relatives, and several Wilson family members sued Brian for defamation of allegations contained in his 1991 book "It't It Be Nice: My Own Story," says the author. Love $1.5 million was settled out of court by publisher HarperCollins, who paid Love $1.5 million. It was the first of many lawsuits against Brian that Love would bring against him. Love won a court fight two years later to establish what he considered to be legitimate authorship for several of the Beach Boys songs he co-wrote. Love argued that Murry Wilson avoided crediting him with his early lyrical contributions to Brian's songs, denying that Love deserved royalties. It was then described as "most definitely the largest case of fraud in music history," the singer later said.

Love continued to tour with the Beach Boys after Carl Wilson's death in 1998, as well as Bruce Johnston and a supporting band of new artists, occasionally including actor John Stamos. In a boardroom deal with Brother Records, the Beach Boys' group, he leased exclusive rights to tour under the Beach Boys name. During this period, Jardine, his ex bandmate, "Beach Boys Family & Friends," "Al Jardine, Beach Boy," and "Al Jardine, Beach Boy," was among the popular names, but Love decided not to sue him in order to avoid the use of the word. The judges ruled in Love's favour, refusing to use the Beach Boys name in any way. Jardine decided not to appeal the decision in lieu of receiving $4 million in damages. The California Court of Appeal found that "Love acted incorrectly in freezing Jardine out of touring under the Beach Boys name" and that Jardine was allowed to proceed with his case. The lawsuit was settled outside of court, but the terms were not revealed.

In 2000, ABC launched The Beach Boys: An American Family, a two-part television miniseries that dramatized the Beach Boys' tale. It was created by Stamos and was chastised for historical inaccuracies. Love was a film consultant. Several commentators accused him of overstating his presence in the film and portraying negative images of Brian and Smile collaborator Van Dyke Parks.

Love filed a lawsuit against Brian Wilson and the British newspaper The Mail On Sunday, because the Beach Boys' name and photographs were used in a promotional CD that was sent free with the paper to advertise the 2004 Brian Wilson Smiles. Love argued that the band's illegal (by Brother Records Inc.) free CD resulted in the band's loss of money. "You might want to start writing a real big check" for Wilson's wife Melinda, who claimed that Love turned to Wilson during deposition and remarked, "You should start writing a good good one because you'll have to write me a really big check." On May 16, 2007, the case was dismissed on the grounds that it was without merit.

Love reunited with Brian, Jardine, Johnston, and David Marks in 2011 for a new Beach Boys album and 50th anniversary tour, which began in 2012. Love and Johnston revealed via a press release in September 2012 that following the completion of the reunion tour, the Beach Boys will revert to the Love/Johnston line, without Brian, Jardine, or Marks, all of whom expressed surprise. Despite the fact that such dates were mentioned in a Rolling Stone magazine in late June, it was widely reported that the three had been "fired."

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy, Love's autobiography, was published on September 13, 2016. He wrote the book as a response to "many inaccuracies" that had been discussed about him over the decades. It was published a month before Brian Wilson's autobiography, "I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir." Love replied to the book's derogatory remarks about him: "He's not in charge of his own life, as I am mine." His every move is orchestrated, and a lot of things are ostensibly state, such as: "There is no tape of it." Love hasn't read Brian's book as of November 2016.

Love's second solo album Unleash the Love was released on November 17, 2017. Love's third solo album, Reason for the Season, debuted on October 26, 2018, incorporating both traditional and original Christmas songs. On July 19, 2019, Love's fourth album 12 Sides Of Summer would have been released.

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Awards and honors

• 2014: Society of Singers Lifetime Achievement Award.