Mike
Love, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is lead singer and a
founding member of The Beach Boys.
Mike
wrote the lyrics to The Beach Boys’ first song, “Surfin’,” released in
1961. He then co-authored eleven Top 10 singles in five years with
cousin Brian Wilson, a string of hits including “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “I Get
Around,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations.”
The
period between “Good Vibrations” (1966) and The Beach Boys’ biggest
selling hit “Kokomo” (1988) is one of the longest spans of time between
number one records in history. This feat demonstrates the ageless,
timeless appeal of The Beach Boys. Mike Love is the co-author of both
of these smash hits.
The
Beach Boys annual tours have reached all of the Americas, Europe,
Africa, Asia and Australia and popular demand has not allowed Mike a
summer off in forty years in his role as lead singer. The Beach Boys
concert performance features an energetic hour and forty minutes of
over thirty hit songs.
It
was Mike Love’s idea to perform free Independence Day concerts on the
grounds of the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital beginning in
1980. After a national uproar following Secretary of Interior James
Watt’s ban of The Beach Boys for this event, they returned on July 4,
1984, by a personal invitation from First Lady Nancy Reagan. On July 4,
1985, The Beach Boys played to an afternoon crowd of one million in
Philadelphia and the same evening they performed for over 750,000
people on the Mall in Washington. The day’s historical achievement was
recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Mike
Love has been a longtime supporter of environmental causes and was
among speakers at the Earth Summit in Rio DeJaniero in 1992 and Earth
Day 2000 on the Mall in Washington, D.C.. He created the Love
Foundation, which supports national environmental and educational
initiatives. He has served as 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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