Biography
Michael Edward "Mike" Love (born March 15, 1941) is an American singer/songwriter musician with The Beach Boys. He is a founding member of the band along with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and their friend Al Jardine, and continues to write, record and perform with the band to the present day. Love's lyrical contributions to hit songs for the Beach Boys included "Surfin' Safari", "I Get Around", and the Billboard Number 1's, "Good Vibrations and "Kokomo." In 1988, he, along with the other founding members of the Beach Boys, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.