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Mike Love faces serious health challenges, John Stamos says
John Stamos says his longtime friend Mike Love, the 85-year-old Beach Boys singer, is facing serious health challenges.
Stamos said doctors, family and friends have urged Love to focus on his health, but Love wants to keep performing.
The band returned to the stage in Cincinnati on Saturday after three months without a public concert.
Love sat in a chair throughout that show.
Stamos said he would join Love for a Beach Boys concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on Sunday, and that Love planned to perform.
Stamos has played with Love for 41 years and described him as a mentor and father figure.
Love’s health challenges leave the future uncertain, and no further details about his condition were given.
John Stamos said Beach Boys singer Mike Love is facing serious health challenges.
Stamos said Love plans to perform at the band’s Nashville concert despite doctors, family and friends urging him to focus on his health.
The band played its first public concert in three months on Saturday in Cincinnati, where Love sat on stage for the performance.
Stamos said he has performed with Love for 41 years and described him as a longtime friend, mentor and father figure.
- Who
- Mike Love, 85, Beach Boys singer, and John Stamos, his longtime friend and band guest.
- What
- Stamos said Love is facing serious health challenges and plans to perform despite them.
- When
- Stamos shared the update on Sunday, October 11, 2026.
- Where
- The update concerned a concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville; the band’s previous public concert was in Cincinnati.
- Why
- Stamos said Love insists on performing and says he needs his band, audience, friends and drummer to lift him up.
Doctors, family and friends
Mike Love
Health and performance
Doctors, family and friends
They have urged Love to focus on his health.
Mike Love
He insists on being on stage despite his health challenges.
Mike is a fighter.
Despite doctors, family and friends urging him to focus on his health, he insists on being on stage.
We hope he’ll be doing what he loves for years to come, but we don’t know what the future holds. We have tonight.
He says he needs his band, the audience, his friends and drummer surrounding him to lift him up.
The Beach Boys reunion tour had a series of delays and cancellations.
The band played its first public concert in three months in Cincinnati, where Love sat on stage for the performance.
Stamos shared an Instagram message about Love’s health and said he would attend the Nashville concert.
The Beach Boys were scheduled to perform with Love at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
- Mike Love
- 85 years old
- John Stamos
- 63 years old
- Previous public concert
- Cincinnati
- Nashville venue
- Ryman Auditorium
- Stamos and Love
- Stamos said he had played with Love for 41 years
- Love’s performances
- Stamos said Love had performed more than 7,000 concerts
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