The inspiration for the Spike Jonze 'live documentary' Beastie Boys Story, coming soon to Apple TV+.

Shoutout to the audiobook, which is read (no joke) by Steve Buscemi, Jon Stewart, Kim Gordon, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Elvis Costello, and many more.Early band member Kate Schellenbach is given a chance to tell her side of the story of why she felt she was "fired" from the band and her observations of that time. In its images and fractured mini-chapters, this book continues with the style of those early collaborations, unfortunaely minus the influence of Yauch. They will forever mourn their loss of Adam Yauch who is an inspiration in what one person can do when they have drive to learn, take risks and try new things.

Instead, the tone is almost conversational, and as I acclimated myself to their respective writing styles, I began to feel as if I was having one-on-one conversations with Adam and Mike, and it reached a point where I stopped looking at who was writing the new chapter, because I started to understand how the two men wrote.My initial thought was that it was artificially high because most of the first readers were fans - and maybe a little biased. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. paraphrasing since I'm quite certain Bezos wouldn't sanction such language, though evidently, dick pics are ok?

Adam “AD-ROCK” 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 almost impossible-to-fathom overnight success of their debut studio album Licensed to Ill; that album’s messy fallout; their break with Def Jam, move to Los Angeles, and rebirth as musicians and social activists, with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul’s Boutique. Reilley, Nas, Snoop, Rosie Perez, Wes Anderson and a bunch of other people, some of whom I knew and some I didn't. There were multiple narrators including John C Reilly, Rosie Perez, and Spike Jonze to name just a few. It's part of their charm and added a layer of mystique to their existence as a group, something that's all but vanished in the digital age.

Horovitz comes on like a borscht belt comedian, but beneath that he is urgent, incredulous, kind of vulnerable. It perfectly captures the feeling of being 16 years old and finding music that's strange and foreign but also completely familiar, a kindred soul beckoning across decades from the grooves of a dusty LP from the bargain bin. That for a time they became the ridiculous caricatures they were mocking on that album, and how much they soon regretted it.