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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.

At the suggestion of guitarist John Sterling who first joined Arthur for Reel To Real, one such show from the Whisky in October 1978 was recorded by Sterling on cassette. Stann Findelle, including never before heard tracks recorded from Bill Graham’s Fillmore East. Love with mostly pick up bands but was inactive for much of the 80s. The title track, “Five String Serenade”, was later recorded by Mazzy Star and Jack White of The White Stripes. 1972, and reignited interest in the band.

In fact, the original Love planned to reform and tour in promotion of the compilation, but Arthur’s legal troubles prevented this. After spending six years in prison from 1995 to 2001 for firearms offenses, Lee began touring in earnest under the name “Love with Arthur Lee”. This new phase of his career met with great success, and he performed to enthusiastic audiences and critical acclaim throughout Europe, North America and Australia. Johnny Echols joined the new group for a special Forever Changes 35th Anniversary Tour performance at Royce Hall, UCLA, in the spring of 2003. Since no one knew of his illness, Arthur’s decision to forgo the final tour was met with confused reactions. At the end of September 2005, Lee moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he planned to continue to make music using the name Love. On January 5, 1998 Ken Forssi died at age 54 of a suspected brain tumor in his home state of Florida.

Probyn Gregory of the Wondermints toured the United States and Canada. Echols, joined by Baby Lemonade, continues to tour as “Love Revisited”, and Michael Stuart was listed as a member of this act for a time in 2009. A compilation album titled Love Lost, featuring sessions for the unreleased 1971 album and other items recorded by the blues rock-oriented incarnation of the band, was released in 2009 by Sundazed Music. In 2013, Love’s unreleased 1973 album Black Beauty was released by the new label High Moon Records. 1967 album Forever Changes is held in particularly high regard and often appears on lists of the best rock albums of all time. In tribute, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant cites Forever Changes as one of his favorite albums ever.