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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

Mike D: ‘After Yauch died I couldn’t make music. I’d open a computer file and just feel sadness’

As part of the Beastie Boys, the rapper shot to fame and notoriety in the 80s, before bandmate Adam Yauch’s death saw him withdraw from the spotlight. He returns with a solo album that sees him reckon with greed, mortality – and his past

The Guardian - 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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On tour with the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and Foo Fighters: raw music documentary captures Australia’s ‘best summer’

In 1995, US film-maker Tamra Davis travelled to Australia to capture the one-off Summersault tour on her camcorder. Thirty years on she has made The Best Summer, an intimate snapshot of an era that can never be repeated

The Guardian - AU

"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

MusicRadar

"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

Metal Hammer

"I don't think their IQ is very high": watch the Beastie Boys behave like obnoxious frat boy jerks on Dutch TV

When the Beastie Boys appeared on Dutch pop show Countdown in 1987 they could hardly have been more irritating

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Olympic shooter fails to have gun ban overturned ahead of Games trials

Diamond is serving a 10-year gun licence ban.

Newcastle Herald

Scientists look beyond climate change and El Nino for other factors that heat up Earth

Scientists are wondering if global warming and El Nino have an accomplice in fueling this summer’s record-shattering heat

The Independent UK

Shooting Australia under fire as Olympic hopefuls forced to fork out thousands to attend competitions

With just over 12 months until the 2024 Paris Olympics, Australia's elite clay target shooting athletes are in the midst of a funding crisis.

ABC News

Shooting gold medallist Michael Diamond fails to have 10-year gun licence ban overturned

An Olympic shooting gold medallist who says he was trusted with guns during his 29-year career has failed in his bid to get his firearm licence back.

ABC News

UK's oldest executive search firm launches in Scotland

Team of six established across new offices in Edinburgh and Aberdeen

Insider UK

COVID shots still work but researchers hunt new improvements

COVID-19 vaccines still offer strong protection against severe illness and death, but Moderna and Pfizer are testing combination shots as a possible new kind of booster

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