Dunno what the hell Mike Love was talking about up there, I gotta say. LOTS of bands wanted to be like the Beatles! In different ways, I mean - even if they didn't necessarily want to sound like them (as the Bee Gees, Byrds, Beau Brummells and many other bands with-or-without-'B's surely did want to), Brian Wilson famously wanted his Beach Boys (hey more 'B's!) to progress from classic songs/singles to making classic ALBUMS as start-to-finish solid as Rubber Soul.
(But what the hell does Mike Love really know about anything, really, other than making money off a nostalgia show ...