Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

In director-writer Michael Feeney Callan's 1993 documentary The Beach Boys Today Love emphasised his fondness for Pet Sounds. Mike attended Dorsey High School graduating in 1959. Two conspicuous tracks off the work-in-progress are "Cool Head Warm Heart" which appeared on an official Beach Boys–related collection and "Pisces Brothers" a reminiscence of his time in India with George Harrison.

In 1988 he along with the other founding members of the Beach Boys was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 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. Michael Edward "Mike" Love (born March 15 1941) is an American singer/songwriter musician with The Beach Boys.