Talking
about the Pop Rock music in my earlier Blog today, the news of the
very sudden death of Adam Yauch shocked the world of Hip Hop. It had
been known for some while that the famous New York rapper suffered
cancer of the saliva gland since 2009, but until the very last day the
'Beastie Boys' were spreading inexhaustible vitality and good humour.
He died day before yesterday at the age of only 47.
Beatie
Boys have been a very unique band of white trio, well respected and
adored by the black brotherhood of Hip-Hop music.Their 1987 début album
'License to ill' sold 5 millions copies and they got the 1st Number one
in the history of Hip-Hop. I remember they performed here in Spain in
1998, by then they have consolidated themselves as a versatile music
group, all playing their own instruments, at ease with psychedelic funk
as with hardcore Rock and Rap.
Yauch
was not just a rapper, an accomplished multi-talented musician and
showman, was also a keen and shrew businessman, directed the discography
of Grand Royale, founded the production company of Cinema
Oscilloscope Laboratories, from which launching documentaries of
thematic and social musicals, and independent films like 'Wendy and
Lucy'.
He also produced and directed a great many video clips of the 'Beatie Boys', one of the disciplines most contributed to consecrate the trio. The last of them, 'Make some noise', was an extract from the short film 'Fight for your right to party revisited' were played by 3 'false' Beatie Boys, the actors Elijah Wood, Seth Rogen and Danny McBride. An infinite list of actors invited (Laura Dern, Susan Sarandon, Will Ferrer, Jack Black' Chloe Sevigny, Orlando Bloom ...) gives a glimpse of the prestige amassed by 3 rappers, white, rough, and unforgettable.
May You Rest In Peace, MCA
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