#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys a
book as unique as the band itself-by band members ADROCK and Mike D with contributions from
Amy Poehler Colson Whitehead Wes Anderson Luc Sante and more. The inspiration for the
Emmy-nominated Apple TV+ "live documentary" Beastie Boys Story directed by Spike Jonze NAMED
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone • The Guardian • Paste Formed as a New
York City hardcore band in 1981 Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop
superstardom. Here is their story told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam
"ADROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their
transition from teenage punks to budding rappers their early collaboration with Russell
Simmons and Rick Rubin the debut album that became the first hip hop record ever to hit #1
Licensed to Ill-and the album's messy fallout as the band broke with Def Jam their move to Los
Angeles and rebirth with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul's Boutique their evolution as
musicians and social activists over the course of the classic albums Check Your Head Ill
Communication and Hello Nasty and the Tibetan Freedom Concert benefits conceived by the late
Adam "MCA" Yauch and more. For more than thirty years this band has had an inescapable and
indelible influence on popular culture. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie
Boys album Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you
will find rare photos original illustrations a cookbook by chef Roy Choi a graphic novel a
map of Beastie Boys' New York mixtape playlists pieces by guest contributors and many more
surprises. Praise for Beastie Boys Book "A fascinating generous book with portraits and
detail that float by in bursts of color . . . As with [the band's] records the book's
structure is a lyrical three-man weave. . . . Diamond's voice is lapidary droll. Horovitz
comes on like a borscht belt comedian but beneath that he is urgent incredulous kind of
vulnerable. . . . Friendship is the book's subject as much as music fame and New York."-The
New York Times Book Review "Wild moving . . . resembles a Beastie Boys LP in its wild
variety of styles."-Rolling Stone
