"What the world needs right now is love," declares Mike Love, frontman and co-founder of the Beach Boys.

The legendary band, five decades young, will be headlining at Hampton Court Palace Festival this summer.

Fans of Good Vibrations, I Get Around, Kokomo, and California Girls can enjoy these earworms on either June 15 and 16.

Love, who started the band with his cousin Brian Wilson, said: “We’re blessed because we took a family hobby and made it into a career.”

The group, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, are no strangers to the British Isles.

Love added: “I always look forward to England, I’ve been having a love affair with Great Britain since the 60s.

“Hampton Court Palace - it’s wonderful to be doing that in the summer. We don’t have anything like it in the USA.”

Love promised they will perform all the favourites, including a lot of songs from Pet Sounds.

“We have a lot of other songs,” he added. “I have a solo album that came out called ‘Unleash the Love’ because what the world needs right now is love.”

However, this isn’t a criticism of the current leader of the free world.

“You know, we’ve known President Trump long before he was President and he’s always been very nice to us,” said Love.

“His style is different to most presidents, which I think is why he got elected.”

Tickets start at £69, book at https://hamptoncourtpalacefestival.com/artists