Beastie Boy Adam Yauch: not just a celebrity activist | Hadley Freeman

My brief encounter with Adam Yauch taught me that he was a musical pioneer, a champion of independent films, and a man who was true to himselfAs is only right for a man who packed such diversity into less than half a century, it is impossible to choose just one detail from the career of the Beastie Boy Adam Yauch that sums up why his death last week at the cruelly young age of 47 feels so especially sad.There's his film company, Oscilloscope Laboratories, which was behind some of the best indie ...

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