Mike Love

In the 1960s, Love was one of Wilson\'s collaborators during a string of US top 10 singles for the Beach Boys, including "Fun, Fun, Fun" (1964), "California Girls" (1965), and "Good Vibrations" (1966). His lyrics primarily reflected the youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance, which helped fashion pop culture\'s perception of the "California Dream". Starting in 1968, Love was a student of Transcendental Meditation (TM) under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and became a TM teacher in 1971. The experience influenced his lyrics to take on themes of astrology, meditation, politics and ecology. In the late 1970s, Love began working on solo albums, releasing his first in 1981: Looking Back with Love. In 1988, he, along with the other founding members of the Beach Boys, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The same year, the song, "Kokomo", co-written by Love, reached number one in the…