In an exclusive: interview with American Songwriter, Mike Love recalled when Paul McCartney played him a Beach Boys-inspired Beatles classic for the first time at a 1968 spiritual retreat in India.

Mike Love speaks candidly on life with Brian Wilson, "Pet Sounds," hanging with the Beatles and the case for "Kokomo" as one of their top songs.

Mike says, “Margot Robbie herself said that she never listened to The Beatles, she liked The Beach ... love of harmonizing and singing about what we loved about our environment in Southern ...

This year’s performing inductees are Parliament-Funkadelic ringleader George Clinton, the Beach Boys’ Mike Love ... while Love contributed to Beach Boys hits “California Girls ...