Back in 2013, Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Ad-Rock signed a book deal to write a memoir that was planned to come out in 2015. Ad-Rock later said, “There's no way it’s going to happen [before 2017].” Now, in an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1, Mike D says that the book will arrive in fall 2018. “We’re actually going to finish it, and it’s going to come out finally. Like many things we embark on, there are many false starts and, honestly, directions we went in that we realized were not the directions we should be going in, but it’s gonna be coming out in the fall of this year,” he said.
To tell our story, we have to give the cultural history of where we came from. So New York City in the ’80s, you had all these incredible, exciting music, art, film, all that sort of has to converge to be able to explain. We just had the good fortune of being around all of it so I think that’s No. 1. And the other thing is, I think a lot of times when I read a book or I watch a music documentary, maybe I’m just kind of A.D.D., I get a little bored, but actually I don’t think they do the subject matter justice because it’s kinda surreal what happens in bands’ lives so you kind of have to use all dimensions to tell the story more accurately.
He also promised, “It will be unlike any other music book.” Listen to the segment below.
traindodge on January 18th, 2018 at 02:05 UTC »
Holy fuck this is so exciting. One of my biggest regrets is never having seen the Beastie Boys live.
Bonerbeef on January 18th, 2018 at 01:44 UTC »
I know that the Beastie Boys will never record another song, but I really wish the surviving members would work on other projects or film scores. They had some of the best instrumentals. The In Sound From Way Out is incredible.
tezoatlipoca on January 17th, 2018 at 22:46 UTC »
I think it goes without saying that the prologue of this memoir has to begin with "Now, here's a little story, we gots to tell, about three bad brothers you know so well. It started way back, in NYC, with Adrock, MCA and me, Mike D."