Love is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. Led by Arthur Lee, the band's primary songwriter, they were one of the first racially diverse American rock bands. Their sound incorporated an eclectic range of styles including garage, folk rock, and psychedelia. [2]

2006: Love: The Definitive Rock Collection (Elektra/Rhino) 2007: The Blue Thumb Recordings (Hip-O Select, Geffen Records) 2014: Love Songs: An Anthology of Arthur Lee's Love (Salvo)

Arthur Taylor Lee (born Arthur Porter Taylor; March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album Forever Changes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is part of the National Recording Registry.

Love, American rock group formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s that was more popular with critics than with record buyers. The original members were Arthur Lee (b. 1945, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.—d. Aug. 3, 2006, Memphis), Bryan MacLean (b. …

American psychedelic rock group, formed in Los Angeles in 1965. They signed to Elektra records along with the Doors (who were influenced by them in their early days). After the original line …

Jan 16, 2025 · Love were the unsung heroes of the musical Big Bang that took place in 1966, although they have long been overshadowed by bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and especially one-time acolytes The Doors. If Love are remembered today, it’s for their third album, 1967’s Forever Changes, a masterpiece of baroque psychedelia. But ...

Love were representative of three different stages in psychedelic-rock: its roots in folk-rock, still evident on the naive Love (late 1966 or early 1967); its full-blown creative maturity, after digesting blues, jazz and raga, as on their masterpiece Da Capo (1966); its baroque apex, when, influenced (like everybody else) by the Beach Boys' Pet ...

Love is an eclectic Psychedelic Rock and Proto Punk band from Los Angeles. Formed in 1965, they went through numerous configurations over the next few decades, but always with singer / multi-instrumentalist Arthur Lee as the guiding force.

Love Follow Artist + One of the best L.A. folk/psych bands, and producers of the seminal Forever Changes, a symphonic masterpiece of lush textures and surreal lyrics.

The band lived communally in a house called "the Castle" and their first two albums included photographs shot in the garden of that house. 1966–1968 [] Signed to the Elektra Records label, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "My Little Red Book."