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Description: Beastie Boys are an American hip hop band from New York City, formed in 1981. For the majority of its career, the group consisted of three MCs and musicians Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar). Prior to forming the Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond was part of a number of bands such as the Walden Jazz Band, BAN and The Young Aborigines. The Beastie Boys formed in July 1981 when the Young Aborigines bassist Jeremy Shatan left New York City for the summer and the remaining members Michael Diamond, John Berry and Kate Sch Beastie Boys are an American hip hop band from New York City, formed in 1981. For the majority of its career, the group consisted of three MCs and musicians Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass) and Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (vocals, guitar).

Prior to forming the Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond was part of a number of bands such as the Walden Jazz Band, BAN and The Young Aborigines. The Beastie Boys formed in July 1981 when the Young Aborigines bassist Jeremy Shatan left New York City for the summer and the remaining members Michael Diamond, John Berry and Kate Schellenbach formed a new hardcore punk band with Adam Yauch called Beastie Boys. The band supported Bad Brains, the Dead Kennedys, the Misfits and Reagan Youth at venues such as CBGB, A7, Trudy Hellers Place and Max's Kansas City, playing at the latter venue on its closing night. In November 1982 the Beastie Boys recorded the 7" EP Polly Wog Stew at 171A studios, an early recorded example of New York hardcore.

On November 13, 1982, the Beastie Boys played Philip Pucci's birthday for the purposes of his short concert film of the Beastie Boys, Philip Pucci's "Beastie". Pucci held the concert in Bard College's Preston Drama Dance Department Theatre. This performance marked the Beastie Boys’ first on screen appearance in a published motion picture. Pucci's concept for “Beastie” was to distribute a mixture of both a half dozen 16mm Bell and Howell Filmo cameras, and 16mm Bolex cameras to audience members and ask that they capture the Beastie Boys performance from the audience’s own point of view while a master sync sound camera filmed from the balcony of the abandoned theater where the performance was held. The opening band for that performance was The Young and the Useless, which featured Adam Horovitz as their lead singer. A one minute clip of "Beastie" was subsequently excerpted and licensed by the Beastie Boys for use in the "Egg Raid on Mojo" segment of the "Skills to Pay the Bills" long form home video released by Capitol Records. “Skills to Pay the Bills” later went on to earn the Recording Industry Association of America’s (R.I.A.A.) gold sales award for selling more than 500,000 copies.

John Berry left the group in 1983 (later forming Thwig, Big Fat Love, and Bourbon Deluxe) and was replaced by Adam Horovitz, guitarist of The Young and the Useless, who had become close friends with the Beastie Boys at this point. The band also recorded and then performed its first hip hop track, "Cooky Puss", based on a prank call by the group to Carvel Ice Cream in 1983. It became a hit in New York underground dance clubs and night clubs upon its release. ... (more)

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Disbanded Bands (43 music items)

"Started: 1981 Ended: 2012 First album: Licensed to Ill Final album: Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Number of years together: 31 Number of albums: 8 Studio albums, 5 compilation albums, 5 video albums, 7 EPs Number of singles: 43 Number of videos: 47 Former members: Adam “MCA” Yauch, Mike “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad Rock” Horowitz, Kate Schellenbach, and John Barry Reason for band splitting: In 2012, they became the third rap group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fam"

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (420 music items)

"CLASS OF 2012PERFORMERSBEASTIE BOYSMike D - Ad-Rock - MCA● HIP HOP ● RAP ROCK ● ALTERNATIVE ROCK ●● HARDCORE PUNK - JAZZ-FUNK ●MICHAEL LOUIS DIAMOND Born: 20 November 1965ADAM KEEFE HOROVITZ Born: 31 October 1966ADAM NATHANIEL YAUCH Born: 5 August 1964 Died: 4 May 2012RIAA CERTIFICATIONS- = SINGLES = -► Gold: 2 ◄- = STUDIO ALBUMS = - ► Platinum: 1 - Multi-Platinum: 4 - Diamond: 1 ◄♦ Licensed to Ill (1986) ♦KEY SONGSBrass Monkey (1987)- certified Gold by the RIAA(You Gotta"

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Discografia (53 music items)

" 1. Check Your Head (1992) - 9/10 2. Licensed to Ill (1986) - 8/10 3. Ill Communication (1994) - 8/10 4. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (2011) - 8/10 5. Hello Nasty (1998) - 7/10 6. The In Sound from Way Out! - (1996) - 7/10 7. The Mix-Up (2007) - 6/10 8. Paul's Boutique (1989) - 5/10 9. To the 5 Boroughs (2004) - 5/10 "

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