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      Mike Love

      Mike Love

      Highest Rated: 88% The Beach Boys (2024)

      Lowest Rated: 88% The Beach Boys (2024)

      Birthday: Mar 15, 1941

      Birthplace: Baldwin Hills, California, USA

      Born Michael Edward Love on March 15, 1941, he was the son of Milton Love and his wife, Emily Wilson, whose brother, Murry Wilson, was father to the three Wilson brothers - Brian, Dennis and Carl - who would form the backbone of the Beach Boys. As a high schooler, Love was an ardent sports player, but also deeply enamored of the black vocal groups of the late 1950s, and would provide the bass lines in several impromptu groups at Hawthorne High School. Family get-togethers at the Wilson home were also filled with music, where Love forged a relationship with cousin Brian Wilson based on their mutual love for multi-part harmonies. Wilson began to toy with the idea of forming a rock group. While conducting sessions with his brothers in their bedroom, he also included Love on vocals and school friend, Al Jardine, on guitar and harmony. Love provided the embryonic band with its initial moniker, the Pendletones - inspired by the Pendleton shirts favored by South Bay surfers - and encouraged his cousin to begin writing original material. After Dennis Wilson suggested that they write a song about surfing, Wilson and Love cobbled together a rudimentary tribute to the sport called "Surfin'," which, in 1961, became the newly christened Beach Boys' first single.

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      Mike Love at arrivals for Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors Event, Taglyan Complex, Los Angeles, CA October 25, 2016. Photo By: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection

      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      88% 81% The Beach Boys Self - 2024
      No Score Yet 55% The Beach Boys: Making Pet Sounds Unknown (Character) - 2017
      No Score Yet 62% The Beach Boys: An American Band Unknown (Character) - 1985

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Home & Family Music Performer,
      Guest
      2016 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2012
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Classic Albums Guest 2010
      No Score Yet 71% Home Improvement Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Baywatch Self 1995
      No Score Yet 81% Full House Unknown (Guest Star),
      Self
      1990 1992