Inside The Making Of Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique: “It was the epitome of a masterpiece…”

Bill Adler (Def Jam Director of Publicity, author): It’s not like that attention hurt them. We couldn’t salvage anythingMike Simpson (Dust Brother, producer): The Beastie Boys were in contract dispute with Def Jam and had no intention of making another record. They really wanted to make a record that people would hear about from word of mouth. A: We needed to be a band again, our band, without them [Def Jam]. Ad-Rock quotes from Def Jam: The First 25 Years Of The Last Great Record Label by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas.