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The Beach Boys’ first
song was the 1961 Mike Love title “Surfin’.”
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Mike Love co-authored an
amazing eleven Top-10 singles in the five years between 1963 and 1968,
including “Good Vibrations.”
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On July 4, 1985, The
Beach Boys played to almost two million concertgoers in Philadelphia,
PA, and Washington, D.C. on the same day.
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The biggest hit of The
Beach Boys’ career, “Kokomo,” (co-written by Mike Love) came in 1988.
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Mike Love and The Beach
Boys have not taken a summer off in 40 years. The Beach Boys have
performed more shows than any other major rock act.
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The Beach Boys are widely
considered America’s finest and most important Rock and Roll band.
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Mike Love’s idea to
compile the Capitol Records Endless Summer double-LP in 1974
sparked the infamous comeback that led Rolling Stone to name
The Beach Boys “Band of The Year.”
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The Beach Boys were
honored at the 2001 Grammy Awards, receiving The Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Recording Academy.
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The Beach Boys Pet
Sounds hits the top twenty in Rolling Stone’s 2002
readers poll “100 Greatest Albums of All Time.”
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Rolling Stone
voted “Good Vibrations” the “Number One Song of the Century.”
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The Beatles followed Mike
Love to India when he traveled to further pursue his love of
transcendental meditation. A passion that would soon overtake the
Western world.
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Mike Love created the Love
Foundation, which supports national environmental and educational
initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lake Tahoe
School in Incline Village, Nevada, and has been responsible for raising
over $1 million to benefit the school.
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The Beach Boys were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
