There was also a big void for us after Paul’s Boutique. But its flopping gave the album room to be embraced by people that didn’t or couldn’t connect to Licensed to Ill. ![]() With Paul’s Boutique, for example, we were three fools trying to make something we loved. There are a million moments that lead up to those moments you picked out. It isn’t based on nothing - it’s just based on a simple timeline. Licensed to Ill was your biggest-selling album, Paul’s Boutique is considered, pretty much by consensus, to be your best album, and the “Sabotage” video gave you a new audience. What you described is an easy way to look at a timeline and pick out a few blips.īut it’s not based on nothing. Has working on the book affected your thinking about the Beastie Boys’ career? The conventional narrative, as I see it, is that there were three defining milestones for you guys: Licensed to Ill, Paul’s Boutique, and “Sabotage.” Does that jibe with your understanding of the band’s trajectory? Thirty-seven years after forming the band, Mike can say, with a smile, “I learned a lot of things in the Beastie Boys - including how to appreciate a good time.” Mike, 52, hosts the Beats 1 radio show The Echo Chamber, takes occasional production work and DJ gigs, globetrots with his kids, and has written an eagerly anticipated memoir with Ad-Rock. What he’s settled on has been both comparatively low-key and deeply enviable. ![]() “Identifying what else I was comfortable doing with my life was a very gradual process.” “For three decades I was totally consumed with being in the band,” says Mike D, rail-thin in a leather jacket, sipping tea in the lobby of the Bowery Hotel. When the Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in the past.
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