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Spike Jonze is releasing a Beastie Boys photo book with never-before-seen captures

The release date is set for March 2020

Movie and music video director Spike Jonze is set to release a 256-page photo book that documents the history of the legendary New York hip-hop band The Beastie Boys. Uproxx reports that the book will simply be titled Beastie Boys and will include photos shot by Jonze himself.

The band was one of the first whose video was directed by Jonze, and through their cooperation he and the members of the band became personal friends. “From taking the stage at Lollapalooza to filming their ‘Sabotage’ video, Beastie Boys will cover special moments in the trio’s career.”

The book will be published by Rizzoli and the it will be available on March 17, 2020.

In the advance blurb, the publisher gave the following description:

When they met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1993, the Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze were rising stars of their respective fields–the golden ages of both east coast hip hop and MTV. Immediately a connection formed between the three MCs and the young filmmaker, which has lasted throughout their careers.

Twenty-five years later, this book collects for the first time more than two hundred of Spike Jonze’s personal photographs of his time spent with the Beastie Boys. Edited and with an afterword by Jonze, and including new texts by the Beastie Boys themselves Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz, this book shows the greatest act of the hip hop generation in their truest colors as only a close friend could see them–from going on stage at Lollapalooza to writing together at Mike D’s apartment; getting into character for a video to dressing up as old men to hit the basketball court; recording an album in the studio in Los Angeles to goofing around the streets of New York.

From the music video for “Sabotage” to the cover of the Sounds of Science album, Spike Jonze is responsible for some of the most iconic images of the band ever made–but here, the emphasis is on the candid, the unexpected, the behind-the-scenes, and the real.

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