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Beastie Boy Mike D releases his first solo LP 'Thank You'

Mike D rose to fame in the 1980s as part of New York's Beastie Boys, a rap-rock trio who soon tired of poking fun at frat boy humour with hits like "Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" and" Girls". The band quickly moved on thanks to their passion for beat…

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Beastie Boys’ Mike D on his party days of yore: ‘We were young and full of testosterone’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Forty years on from his trailblazing group’s incendiary debut, the New York-born rapper is releasing his first solo record. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about their raucous hard-partying early years, clashing with label boss Russell Simmons, and what he learned from late bandmate Adam Yauch

The Independent UK

“I don’t want to say The Beatles cleared it, but somebody at EMI or Apple. So whoever you were that did it, thank you. Thank you, Sir Paul”: Mike D on how the Beastie Boys got away with sampling five Beatles songs on Paul's Boutique

Ahead of the release of his debut solo album, Mike D looks back at the audacious, anything-goes sampling ethos behind the Beastie Boys' magnum opus

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“I remember the three of us thinking that it was an absolute stroke of genius that we'd just come up with the most idiotic idea ever”: Mike D talks about the Beastie Boys’ fallout with Russell Simmons and that hydraulic prop

It was featured on the Licensed To Ill show

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Eat, sleep, rave ... make peace! DJ Yousuke Yukimatsu’s mission to change the world with topless raves

He beat brain cancer. Now your favourite DJ’s favourite DJ is on a UK tour, armed with experimental techno, Beastie Boys and Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

"For really just a long time, it was just way too sad for me to make music”: Mike D on his grief at the loss of Adam Yauch

The ex-Beastie Boy releases his solo debut later this summer

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"I'm releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality." Beastie Boys legend Mike D announces debut solo album Thank You

Listen to True Colors, the latest preview of Mike D's forthcoming debut album

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Mike D live: Gonzo brilliance from a Beastie Boy rediscovering the fun

5/5 Mike D brings his new solo act to 26 Leake Street in Waterloo and shows Beastie Boys never die

Evening Standard

Mike D review – ex-Beastie Boy’s first UK gig in two decades, in a Tyneside bingo hall, is uproarious fun

Teeing up a forthcoming solo album, the rapper doesn’t reheat his old Beastie Boys sound, instead throwing down everything from ballads to Kraftwerk references

The Guardian - UK

"70s metal was definitely the coolest. AC/DC had some fly records, Sabbath had some cool s**t." Ten Beastie Boys songs featuring samples of classic rock anthems

"When hip hop DJs started using those chunky riffs, we started checking out old metal again"

Louder

Beastie Boy Mike D announces first ever solo headline tour

Mike D will kick off his first ever solo headline tour with two nights at a 1,150-capacity London club

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"We thought Venom were excellent. But then they came to New York and we found out that they weren't joking." Why the Beastie Boys were disappointed to discover that British metal legends Venom weren't a comedy band

Venom: unlikely heroes to the New York hardcore community

Metal Hammer

“I decided it would be funny to write a song about how he was holding us all down, how he was trying to mess it all up, sabotaging our great works of art”: The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

Its legendary DIY video was hugely influential, but few realise that the fury of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage was triggered by real studio pressure

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"I remember getting the award from Aerosmith and I went to an afterparty with Bono. It was all mad." How a comedy song about a posh lady getting her kicks from the homeless community became an impossible hit

When three acquaintances decided to make a joke song about a bizarre topic just for the hell of it, they can't have foreseen what'd happen next

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"It's not big, it's not clever, but it is a lot of twelve-bar fun with that Keith Richards' twist": Faster Pussycat's debut is a middle-finger-in-the-air collection of songs about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

Faster Pussycat capture all the sleaze of Sunset Strip on rowdy self-titled debut

Metal Hammer

"He would blow a fuse and get p**sed off at us and scream!" How an irate producer and 'Chris Rock' convinced Beastie Boys to finish what would be their biggest-ever song

Listen all of y'all, it's a Sabotage story behind the song

Louder

"There's loads of Hives in South America": The Hives on making their Back In Black, royal waves, and how the official franchise programme is going

The Hives' Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist on Outkast, the Beastie Boys, the Rolling Stones and becoming rock royalty

Evening Standard

The Hives: 'We've always said we're the best band in the world'

Still the undisputed kings of live shows, The Hives have a brand of witty rock’n’roll carnage that’s as contagious as ever.

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The Independent UK

Beastie Boys reach out-of-court settlement with Chili’s over ‘unauthorized’ use of ‘Sabotage’

The band sued the restaurant’s parent company Brinker International last year

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"I certainly did not imagine that a son of mine would get rich from being obnoxious!" In 1987, the Beastie Boys were portrayed as the world's most outrageous, offensive band, a danger to civilised society. Their parents found it all hugely amusing

"If World War Three was declared tomorrow I'm sure we'd get the blame," Beastie Boys' Mike D once said. His mum Hester told parents not to panic

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“I co-wrote most of everything on the Beastie Boys album”: Rick Rubin on his greatest hits of the ’80s - from the Beasties to Roy Orbison

Plus: his pick for the greatest rock 'n' roll producer of all time

The Independent UK

19 hit songs hated by the musicians who wrote them

THE LIST: We all have those tunes that just get under our skin, but what happens when it’s one you came up with in the first place? Kevin E G Perry and Roisin O’Connor take a look at artists who’ve come to loathe their own creations

Louder

Beastie Boys broke open their gold record to play it –only to be confronted by piano covers of Barry Manilow "and some other shit"

Studio shenanigans were fairly standard for the Beastie Boys, but this stunt left them more than a little confused

Guitar World

“I wish I didn’t get paid. I wish I took a quarter point or something, ‘cause now I would be a rich man”: Slayer’s Kerry King on what he regrets about his solo on the Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn

King reveals how he ended up playing on the Beastie Boys and Sum 41's records

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Slayer's Kerry King wishes he'd cut a better deal for his solo on Beastie Boys' No Sleep Till Brooklyn: "I would be a rich man."

While Slayer's Kerry King can't be short of a few quid, he thinks he'd be significantly better off if he'd shared profits

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