The man who owns the Beach Boys’ name is going up against Brian Wilson in the autobiography stakes. But what might we read on his book?

1 It will not, sadly, be called Mike Love Not War. It will, instead, be entitled Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy.

2 Given that the belated release of Smile in 2001, after 34 years in the vaults, saw Love claiming it to represent “cousin Brian at he creative peak”, might there be a volte face that sees Love disowning the surfing songs and arguing that he was wrong to tell Brian Wilson: “Don’t fuck with the formula”? Let’s think about it for a moment. Not going to happen, is it?

3 There will be a lot about transcendental meditation and its manifold benefits. We can but hope there will also be a section detailing the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s plans for a magical vedic themed amusement park in the US, and for the world’s tallest building, a Vedic pyramid to be built in Brazil and to be filled with Yogic flyers. But don’t bet on it.

4 Tribute will be paid to Brian Wilson’s genius. But tribute will also be paid to Mike Love’s genius. It will be pointed out that he wrote the lyrics to California Girls, which is easily as significant an achievement as writing the music to Pet Sounds.

5 It will be pointed out that Brian Wilson had nothing to do with Kokomo, which in 1988 became the band’s first US No 1 since Good Vibrations in 1966. It may well be claimed that makes it every bit as good as Good Vibrations. It’s the only Beach Boys No 1 not written or produced by Brian Wilson.

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6 He might not be horrible about Van Dyke Parks. Even though he was scathing at the time about Parks’s lyrics for Smile, time heals all wounds – Parks actually played accordion on Kokomo (which he may not view as his most significant contribution to pop music).

7 He will point out, completely justifiably, that without him the Beach Boys would long since have ceased to exist. He will argue, completely justifiably, that his taking command of the group and returning the Beach Boys to surf hits and medleys turned them into a phenomenally popular touring attraction (Led Zeppelin and Oasis headlining Knebworth? Rock legend. But we don’t hear so much about the Beach Boys headlining it in 1980).

8 He’ll launch a staunch defence of the way the Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary reunion was handled, and how right it was that the band/brand name should revert to Love’s touring outfit once the gigs were done with, and how Al Jardine and Brian Wilson were perfectly welcome to go off and do their own thing. He will not concede that the whole thing was handled with a distinct lack of grace.

9 No matter what revelations his autobiography contains, it will be overshadowed by another Beach Boys autobiography – for Brian Wilson is publishing his own memoir in 2015, with Love’s not due till 2016. Wilson published one autobiography, Wouldn’t It Be Nice in 1991 – but he subsequently said he hadn’t even read the book, let alone written any of it. However, that book portrayed Love as money-fixated bully; if his new book follows the same course, Love will have some remedial image repair work to do with Good Vibrations. Supposing, of course that he cares what anyone thinks of him, for there’s plenty of evidence – including his incredible speech at the Beach Boys’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 – to suggest he really doesn’t.

10 He will be pictured on the cover wearing a baseball cap.