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Prior to forming the Beastie Boys, Michael Diamond was part of a number of bands such as the Walden Jazz Band, BAN, and the Young Aborigines. The Beastie Boys formed in July 1981 when the Young Aborigines bassist Jeremy Shatan left New York City for the summer and the remaining members Diamond, John Berry and Kate Schellenbach formed a new hardcore punk band with Adam Yauch.
Adam Nathaniel Yauch (/ j aʊ k / YOWK; August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012), also known by the stage name MCA, [1] was an American rapper, bassist, filmmaker and a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys.
John Berry (May 31, 1963 – May 19, 2016) [1] was an American hardcore punk musician. He was a founding member of the Beastie Boys, although he left the band in 1982 before they secured any commercial success.
Original member of the Beastie Boys, John Berry, died on Thursday (May 19) at the age of 52 after suffering from frontal lobe dementia.
Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the live documentary of sorts fronted by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz is 100% ...
Horovitz with Beastie Boys in Barcelona, Spain on September 5, 2007. Adam Keefe Horovitz (born October 31, 1966), [1] [2] popularly known as Ad-Rock, is an American rapper, guitarist, and actor. He was a member of the hip-hop group Beastie Boys. While Beastie Boys were active, Horovitz performed with a side project, BS 2000.
In addition to organizing the Tibetan Freedom Concert Lineup with Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch from 1996 to 1999, he performed for Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City in October 2011 ...
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2016.