Surviving Beastie Boys Sign a Deal to Write Autobiography.
With Adam Yauch gone, the Beasties are finished. The most anyone can hope for is to tie up some loose ends.
Perhaps that’s what Mike D and Ad-Rock were thinking when they signed a deal wtih Spiegel & Grau (part of Random House) to write a first-person history of the band.
The style of the book hasn’t been determined (oral history? linear or not? text, pictures or both?), but hints have been dropped that this won’t be a regular sort of autobiography. The quote from Mike D is “I don’t want to do a straight memoir.”
Spiegel & Grau seems to be a good choice having already published a high-concept book by Jay-Z called Decoded a couple of years ago.
There’s no title for the book yet, but it’s expected to be in stores sometime in 2015.
