Mike Love Unleash The Love
Album release November 17 2017 On BMG Digital, double CD, and 2LP formats. Available for pre-order on October 27 2017 mikelove.com
Legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, Grammy® Winner, New York Times Best-Selling Author, co-founder and chief lyricist of The Beach Boys, Mike Love, is set to release a special double album on November 17 through BMG. Entitled Unleash the Love, the album will feature 13 brand new songs and 12 re-recordings of Beach Boys classics. The album is produced by Grammy®-winning producer, Michael Lloyd.
The title track, one of 13 new songs Mike Love wrote for this double-LP, was premiered on Rolling Stone. The album’s guests include the actor John Stamos, who plays drums on two originals and appears alongside Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath for a version of the Beach Boys' ‘Do It Again’ - listen HERE
For more than fifty years, Mike Love has been the lead singer and front man of The Beach Boys taking the sounds of America’s band to every corner of the globe— playing for crowds of up to 750,000 fans. Mike has co-authored more than a dozen hit singles, cementing The Beach Boys as one of the only artists to have produced twelve Top 10 Singles within 5 years. With iconic and timeless tracks like ‘Good Vibrations’, ‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ ‘I Get Around’ and ‘Kokomo’ The Beach Boys have created some of the most performed songs in pop music history.
Unleash The Love is a testament and continuation of Mike Love’s remarkable career. The new tracks range from rock, gospel, R&B and pop and celebrate Love’s connection to the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his journey to find personal love and peace. Love’s history with Transcendental meditation anchors a number of songs including ‘Ram Raj’ a song celebrating the divine; ‘Pisces Brothers’, a tribute to the late George Harrison and the experiences they both shared in India in 1968 and ‘Cool Head, Warm Hear’ a breezy pop song, which borrows its title from a saying by Maharishi Mahesh. The album also includes a prayer for the planet ‘Only One Earth’. As with all of the new tracks, a sense of concern is infused in every song: to change what you can, to transcend, connect to the planet and the people around you and give into the power of love.
“I’ve been working on these new songs on and off for many years now and I’m excited to share them with fans,” said Mike Love. “As a writer, I kept gravitating to this idea of love, in all forms. Romantic love, unrequited love, lasting love, spiritual love, love for the planet, and what the absence of love can do to us as a people. This album is my way of communicating what the world needs now is love sweet love. And the hope is if we all can unleash whatever love inside of us, we can collectively make this world better.”
In addition to the collection of Mike Love original songs, the special double album features new versions of classic hits such as ‘California Girls’, ‘Help Me Rhonda’, and ‘Good Vibrations’, recorded members by The Beach Boys touring band.
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Earlier this month, the paperback version of Mike Love’s New York Times best-selling memoir, GOOD VIBRATIONS: My Life as a Beach Boy hit shelves. The book is published by Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA). Currently, Mike Love is on the Wild Honey World Tour with The Beach Boys which will continue into winter of 2017.
The Beach Boys touring band features lead singer Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Scott Totten, Jeffrey Foskett, Brian Eichenberger, Tim Bonhomme, and John Cowsill. The band continues to perform over 150 sold-out shows year-round across the globe.
Unleash The Love tracklisting
CD1 : Mike Love Originals 1. All The Love In Paris featuring Dave Koz on Saxophone 2. Getcha Back featuring John Stamos on Drums 3. Daybreak Over The Ocean 4. I Don't Wanna Know 5. Too Cruel 6. Crescent Moon 7. Cool Head Warm Heart 8. Pisces Brothers 9. Unleash The Love 10. Ram Raj 11. 10000 Years Ago 12. Only One Earth 13. Make Love Not War
CD2 : Mike Love/Beach Boys Re-Records
1. California Girls 2. Do It Again featuring Mark McGrath and John Stamos 3. Help Me Rhonda 4. I Get Around 5. Warmth of the Sun featuring Ambha Love 6. Brian's Back 7. Kiss Me Baby 8. Darlin' 9. Wild Honey 10. Wouldn't It Be Nice 11. Good Vibrations 12. Fun Fun Fun
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