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Beastie Boys star Adam Yauch dies aged 47
The rapper grew up in Brooklyn, and was fascinated by electronics and explosives at a young age, building small home-made bombs from fireworks he had hoarded at home.
Aged 14, he removed himself from a Quaker school to join a public high school in New York. "I felt I was leading too much of a sheltered life," <link> <caption>he told Rolling Stone </caption> <url href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-beastie-boys-are-back-in-town-20120504#ixzz1tvSnOAVk" platform="highweb"/> </link> in 1998.
There he taught himself bass guitar, after discovering punk through The Clash's debut album.
His new schoolfriends also introduced him to his future bandmates for the first time.
In addition to his rap career, Yauch was heavily involved in the Free Tibet movement, and co-organised several fundraising concerts in the 1990s.
"I think that movies and CDs... they affect the way people think," <link> <caption>he told PBS</caption> <url href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tibet/interviews/yauch.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> in 1997. "I know they've radically affe
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Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Titled Quest (2011)
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Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze Talk New Apple TV Plus Documentary: ‘Fame Was Like an Extra-Large Bag of Fritos’
Between the Beastie Boys’ retrospective book (“Beastie Boys Book”), their 2018 “event tour” (featuring readings and Q&A) and “Beastie Boys Story” documentary — which comes out Friday on Apple TV+ — one might wonder what’s left to talk about. But Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Mike “D” Diamond — the third Beastie Boy, Adam “MCA” Yauch,” died of cancer in 2011 — along with film director, longtime video collaborator and friend Spike Jonze, did a round of Zoom interviews Monday to promote the film (which was reviewed here by Variety’s Owen Gleiberman).
The conversation — where 10 interviewers got to ask one question each — was, not surprisingly, highly entertaining and all over the place, so an edited and condensed Q&A follows.
Jonze started things off by saying what made the film special for him. “I like the idea of trying to make something that represented all the things I love about them and their band,” he said, “and the idea that it’s the people who were [there] describing what h