It was a moment of bittersweet vibrations. That was the mood when the Beach Boys frontman Mike Love was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on Thursday night. The enshrinement at New York’s Marriott Marquis came just one day after it was confirmed that his brilliant bandmate — and cousin — Brian Wilson died at 82.

The news of Wilson's tragic death was shared on his social media accounts by his children—and comes just over one year after they filed for a conservatorship of their father, noting that he was suffe...