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3 unusual facts about Mike Love


King Harvest

With support from Beach Boys members Carl Wilson and Mike Love, they were signed to A&M Records and made another album, but, failing to achieve any hits, they subsequently broke up.

Rocky Pamplin

Pamplin was, along with Stan Love, a former NBA player and younger brother to Beach Boy Mike Love, hired as a body guard for singer Brian Wilson.

The Loading Zone

Fauerso went on to produce the unreleased Mike Love solo album First Love and more recently, a second entitled "Only One Earth".


On and On and On

In 1981, Beach Boys member Mike Love returned the compliment by covering "On and On and On" on his solo album Looking Back with Love.

Somewhere Near Japan

"Somewhere Near Japan" is a song written by John Phillips, Terry Melcher, Mike Love, and Bruce Johnston for the American rock band The Beach Boys.

The Hurdy Gurdy Man

The rest of The Hurdy Gurdy Man was recorded in April 1968, after he visited Rishikesh, India to study under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Mia Farrow, Prudence Farrow, and Mike Love were there as well.


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Breakfast with the Beatles

Ringo Starr, Pete Best and Spencer Davis along with Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Mike Love also frequently called into the Tampa Bay's WYUU U92 92.5 fm 1988 to 1999 show with Dr. Chuck Stevens as the host.

M.I.U. Album

The idea, by staunch Transcendental Meditation follower Mike Love, was to record another new album—initially intended as a Christmas release—at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, (hence the M.I.U. title).

Surfer Girl

"Catch a Wave" featured Mike Love's sister, Maureen, on harp, while "The Surfer Moon" was the first Beach Boys song to have a string arrangement.

Terry Jacks

In 2011 Terry's old friend Al Jardine of The Beach Boys Released a new version of Terry's song Don't Fight The Sea recorded along with fellow Beach Boys Mike Love, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston and the late Carl Wilson, who sang part of the lead vocal.