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John Stamos says Mike Love wants to keep performing despite health challenges
Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love returned to the stage with the band at a concert in Cincinnati on Saturday, after the group canceled several shows.
Love, 85, was helped onstage and sat during the performance.
Actor and musician John Stamos, a longtime Beach Boys associate, spoke to the crowd before Love appeared.
Stamos later said Love is facing serious health challenges and that doctors, family and friends have urged him to focus on his health.
According to Stamos, Love insists on performing because being with his band and audience lifts him up.
The band had canceled nearly 30 shows scheduled through September, then canceled three more amid concerns about Love’s health.
Stamos said he hoped Love could keep doing what he loves, but that the future was uncertain.
John Stamos said Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love wants to keep performing despite serious health challenges.
The band returned to a public concert Saturday night at PNC Pavilion at Riverbend in Cincinnati, with Love helped onstage.
Stamos said doctors, family and friends had urged Love to focus on his health, but Love insisted on performing.
The band had canceled nearly 30 shows scheduled through September and three more shows amid concerns about Love’s health.
Stamos shared his comments in a social media post with Love on Sunday.
- Who
- Mike Love, Beach Boys co-founder, and John Stamos, a longtime band associate.
- What
- Stamos said Love insists on performing despite serious health challenges.
- When
- Stamos posted his statement on Sunday after the band’s Saturday concert.
- Where
- The concert was at PNC Pavilion at Riverbend in Cincinnati.
- Why
- Stamos said Love wants the band, audience, friends and drummer around him to lift him up.
Mike Love
Doctors, family and friends
Performing
Mike Love
Love insists on being on stage and says the band, audience, friends and drummer lift him up.
Doctors, family and friends
They urged him to focus on his health.
Mike is a fighter. Despite doctors, family and friends urging him to focus on his health, he insists on being on stage.
He says he needs his band, the audience, his friends and drummer surrounding him to lift him up.
As a family member, you want him to stay home and get healthy, but as a fan, you want to see him come out and do the music
My beloved friend, father figure, musical hero and mentor, Mike Love, is facing serious health challenges.
Love announced that the Beach Boys would take a break to “recharge” and canceled nearly 30 shows scheduled through September.
The band canceled three more shows amid concerns about Love’s health.
The band performed with Love at the American Heart Association’s Heart And Stroke Ball gala.
The band played its first public concert since July at PNC Pavilion at Riverbend in Cincinnati, with Love helped onstage.
Stamos posted a statement with Love saying that Love insists on being on stage despite health challenges.
- Canceled shows
- Nearly 30 shows scheduled through September, plus three more
- Health statement
- Stamos said Love was facing serious health challenges
- Concert venue
- PNC Pavilion at Riverbend, Cincinnati
- Concert date
- Saturday night
- Stamos’s time with Love
- 41 years
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