No./ 18 The Beastie Boys check their heads
IN 1994, SPIKE JONZE and the Beastie Boys made one of the best music videos of all time for their track . Twenty-four years later, they teamed up again for a stage show, to promote , which Jonze has now expanded into a doco about the trio’s 30-year career, from their rowdy New York adolescence to the death of founding member Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch in 2012. They is a typically eccentric and irreverent reminder of their wild ride. The surviving Boys — Michael ‘Mike D’ Diamond and Adam ‘Ad-Rock’ Horovitz — hopped on a Zoom call with to explain how it came about, and where this fits in their somewhat chequered cinematic canon.
