Beach Boys' Mike Love Celebrates Bandmate Brian Wilson At Hall Of Fame Induction

Love paid tribute to his late cousin on Thursday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Beach Boys’ Mike Love was inducted into the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night, just one day after it was announced that his inimitable bandmate Brian Wilson had died.

The actor — and lifelong Beach Boys fan — John Stamos introduced him. “There are songs that don’t just play on the radio,” Stamos said in his speech. “Mike Love is a songwriter’s songwriter.”

Stamos recalled asking Love, “Which songs did you write, again?” Love’s response: “I only wrote the hits.”

Love’s speech was filled with gratitude, with one of his greatest thanks reserved for “my cousin, Brian Wilson,” he said. “My first cousin by blood and my brother in music.”

Stamos then joined Love for a few Beach Boys’ classics: “California Girl,” “I Get Around,” “Kokomo,” and “Good Vibrations.”