PDF Beastie Boys Book

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Beastie
Boys
Book
Description
Number One New York Times Best Seller A panoramic
experience
that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as
unique as the band itself - by band members
ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy
Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Wes Anderson, Luc
Sante, and more. The inspiration for the Spike
Jonze quotlivdocumentaryquotBeastie Boys Story,
coming soon to IMAX theaters and Apple TVNamed
One of The Best Books of the Year by Rolling
StoneThe GuardianPasteFormed as a New York City
hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an
unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom.
Here is their story, told for the first time in
the words of the band. Adam quotADRCKquotHorovit
z and Michael quotMikDquotDiamond offer
revealing and very funny accounts of their
transition from teenage punks to budding rappers
their early collaboration with Russell Simmons
and Rick Rubin the debut album that became the
first hip hop record ever to hit number one,
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Licensed to Ill - and the album's messy fallout
as the band broke with Def Jam their move to Los
Angeles and rebirth with the genre- defying
masterpiece Paul's Boutique their evolution as
musicians and social activists over the course of
the classic albums Check Your Head, Ill
Communication, and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan
Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late
Adam quotMCAquot Yauch
and and and
more. For more than 30 years, this band has had
an inescapable indelible influence on popular
culture. With a style as distinctive eclectic as
a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the
typical music memoir, featuring a collection of
voices reminiscent of your favorite mixtape.
Photo Credit 1987 Lynn Goldsmith Audiobook Cast
Includes Steve Buscemi / Ada Calhoun / Bobby
Cannavale / Exene Cervenka Roy Choi / Jarvis
Cocker / Elvis Costello / Chuck D / Nadia Dajani
Michael Diamond / Snoop Dogg / Will Ferrell /
Crosby Fitzgerald Randy Gardner / Kim Gordon /
Josh Hamilton / Adam Horovitz LL Cool J / Spike
Jonze / Pat Kiernan / Talib Kweli / Dave
Macklovitch Rachel Maddow / Tim Meadows / Bette
Midler/ Mix Master Mike Nas / Yoshimi O / Rosie
Perez / Amy Poehler / Kelly Reichardt John C.
Reilly / Ian Rogers / Maya Rudolph / Rev Run Luc
Sante / Kate Schellenbach / MC Serch / Chloe
Sevigny Jon Stewart / Ben Stiller / Wanda Sykes /
Jeff Tweedy / Philippe ZdarPraise for Beastie
Boys BookquotAfascinating, generous book with
portraits and detail that float by in bursts of
color.... As with the band8217s records, the
book's structure is a lyrical three-man weave....
Diamond's voice is lapidary, droll. Horovitz
comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but
beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of
vulnerable.... Friendship is the book's subject
as much as music, fame and New York.quot(The New
York Times Book Review)quotWil,
moving...resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild
variety of styles.quot(Rolling Stone)