We are family, but I am suing you and just so you know its nothing personal as I still love you and I hope we can be friends!
Well at least that’s the tone of the new lawsuit filed by Mike Love!
Mike Love is suing his cousin and former Beach Boys band-mate Brian Wilson accusing the later of promoting his 2004 album “Smile” using likeness of Mike Love’s songs and Beach Boys trademark!
His attorney states that it is nothing personal!
The lawsuit seeks damages, including millions of dollars of illicit profits and seeks at least a million more for international advertising, which Love’s attorney’s claim is a way to correct the effects of unfair competition and infringing uses!
The Beach Boys never completed "Smile," and it was regarded as a lost classic until Wilson opted to finish it himself. The album earned international acclaim and marked a dramatic return for the 63-year-old singer-songwriter, who had kept a low profile for years.
Love objected to a promotion in which 2.6 million copies of a Beach Boys compilation CD were given away to readers of Britain's The Daily Mail on Sunday newspaper. The lawsuit said the giveaway undercut the band's sales.
Mike Love has is a no-talent bum who has been riding Brian's coat-tails all his life. Perhaps it is time the fans got together and launched a class action suit against Love for misrepresentation. Love continues to tour with a group calling themselves the 'Beach Boys' when , in fact ,they are little more than a tribute band. It is as though Pete Best put together a group and billed themselves as the Beatles.
