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Love is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. While finding only modest success on the music charts, Love would come to be praised by critics as one of the finest and most important American rock groups of all time. Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2011. Arthur Lee, who was originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG’s and Lee’s American Four.

He had written and also produced the single “My Diary” for Rosa Lee Brooks in 1964 which featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar. Love started playing the Los Angeles clubs in April 1965 and became a popular local attraction. Signed to the Elektra Records label as their first rock act, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “My Little Red Book”. In August 1966 the single written by Arthur Lee “7 and 7 Is”, notable for the exceptional guitar work of Johnny Echols and proto-punk styled drumming by Pfisterer, became their highest-charting single at No.

33 in the Billboard Hot 100. Their musical reputation largely rests on the next two albums, Da Capo and Forever Changes. Echols and Forssi also experienced the ravages of drug addiction and disappeared from the scene. Echols eventually moved to New York and became a very busy studio musician. The reconstituted version of Love, which included Jay Donnellan and then Gary Rowles on guitar, Frank Fayad on bass, and George Suranovich on drums, played in a blues rock style, as opposed to the folk-rock and psychedelic styles of the band’s previous incarnation. The new line-up never garnered the widespread acceptance or acclaim of the original group. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, there were various attempts to reunite the original Love lineup.