Image Courtesy of Def JamBeastie Boys' seminal 1986 debut album, License to Ill, was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America earlier this month, meaning that almost 30 years after its release, the album has now sold 10 million copies. While the Beasties were recording what would become one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the band had no idea what was ahead of them.
"I mean I was a teenager, and we were just having fun in New York," Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz tells ABC Radio. "[We were] riding skateboards to the studio, and just having a lot of fun."
License to Ill featured two of the Beasties' best-known songs: "No Sleep till Brooklyn" and "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)."
"There was no future plan on any of it," Horovitz says. "We were making this weird thing and it happened and then all of the sudden we're on tour and we're the headliners of a big thing. It got bigger and bigger and it just kind of blew up."
For Horovitz, the whole experience can be summed up in one phrase.
"It was pretty wild," he tells ABC Radio. "I don't know how else to say it."
Horovitz stars alongside Ben Stiller in the new film While We're Young, which opens in limited release on March 27.
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