Mike Love said that the Beach Boys didn’t have a ‘formula’ — and his quote wasn’t accurate. In the same memoir, Love mentioned his popular quote.

The Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love reveals the songs he sang with Brian Wilson just three weeks before the icon's death.

Mike Love performs this month at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) By Mikael Wood Pop Music Critic . Dec. 28, 2017 11:55 AM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options.

One August afternoon in 1966, Beach Boy Mike Love climbed into his lemon yellow Jaguar XKE (similar to the one he’s wedging himself right into now) and took off for a recording session in Hollywood.

Mike Love was married to his first wife, Francie St. Martin, for about two years before officially separating. He had several other relationships before getting married to Jacqueline Piesen in 1994.

Mike Love has never been shy about speaking his mind. His scathing speech at the Beach Boys’ 1988 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame still generates YouTube clicks.

How Mike Love Wrecked the Beach Boys' Hall of Fame Induction Most acceptance speeches are filled with colorful history, personal stories and insights. This one was different.

No Kanye West rant can compare with Mike Love at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. As Love recalls in his memoir “Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy,” out Tuesday, his speech ...

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Mike Love, who's a founding Beach Boys member, shared a tribute Wednesday mourning his cousin Wilson. "Today, the world lost a genius, and I lost a cousin by blood and my partner in music," he wrote.