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30 Nov 2018

Beastie Boys: memoirs and more music

The Beastie Boys burst on to the scene in the early 80s as New York punk met hip-hop, spiky lyrics and a new street style – and the British tabloids loved to hate them.

But in 2012, Adam Yauch died of cancer at the age of 47, and the group stopped releasing music.

As they publish a much-anticipated memoir, they revealed to Krishnan Guru-Murthy their plans to put out some unreleased tracks from their heyday.