Michael Diamond
Also Known As: Mike D, Alasondro Alegré, Mike Diamond, Beastie Boys
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Diamond was born in New York City to an upper-middle-class Jewish household. He attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York for six months. In 1979, Diamond co-founded the band The Young Aborigines. In 1981, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, a friend and follower of the band became their bass player, and on the suggestion of their then-guitar player, John Berry, the band changed their name to the Beastie Boys. By 1983,Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) joined, and their sound began to shift away from punk to hip-hop. In 1992, Mike D founded the Beastie Boys' now-defunct record label Grand Royal Records. He is also interested in interior decoration, and designed Brooklyn-themed toile wallpaper; it was used in the renovation of the Marquee nightclub in Chelsea, which reopened in January 2013. A year after the passing of MCA in 2012, Mike D told Rolling Stone he was "excited about making new stuff again" and released "Humberto Vs the New Reactionaries (Christine and the Queens Remix)" in July 2013. A remix of Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band's "Bad Dancer" by Mike D and Adam Horovitz was streamed online in August 2013. The pair is credited with “additional beats, programming and other curve balls.”
Department: Sound
Place of Birth: Brooklyn - New York - USA
Birthday: November 20, 1965
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Gender: Male
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Beastie Boys - Live in Japan
Overview: LIVE AT THE KAWASAKI CITTA CLUB, JAPAN, SEPTEMBER 19TH 1992 - Broadcast on Japan TV, the full concert at the Citta Club, Kawasaki, supporting the 'Check Your Head' comeback album in front of thousands of Japanese Beastie-maniacs!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-19
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Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
Overview: Concert film combining the footage from 50 camcorders given to audience members of a sold out show at Madison Square Garden on October 9, 2004. The audience members were instructed to keep the cameras rolling at all times.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-31
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Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Overview: Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much publicized breakup in 1998. Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows the band to this day. He explores what's next for, what many claim, are the pioneers of alternative rap.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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Tougher Than Leather
Overview: Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they encounter racist bikers, blonde bimbos, and the Beastie Boys!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-26
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Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Overview: Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in groups like Beastie Boys, No Doubt, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction and countless more. Despite the troubles of an eccentric front man they have stayed together for 30 years without ever reaching the level of success so many think they deserve. Using rare archival footage and original comic illustrations the film re-constructs Bad Brains' rich and complicated history.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-06
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Keep Your Eyes Open
Overview: The craziest thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies demonstrate their repertoire of mind-blowing stunts in the fields of skateboarding, snowboarding, skiing, surfing, BMX and motocross.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-01
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Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome
Overview: Yeah boy! With a career spanning over 20 years, Public Enemy have established themselves as one of the most influential acts in the history of rap music. Through rare footage of the group and interviews with Chuck D and Flavor Flav, as well as insights from Korn's Jonathan Davis, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello, Henry Rollins, and others, Public Enemy's legacy is explored.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Overview: Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative growth since his early adolescence has undergone almost relentless media scrutiny. This is a playful yet deeply intimate portrait of Lee, exploring his meteoric rise to pop stardom and the issues of celebrity and spirituality that arise when launched into the spotlight.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-06
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Downloaded
Overview: A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impact on the world at large.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-20
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Beastie Boys: The $kill$ To Pay The Bill$
Overview: Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun / So What'Cha Want / Netty's Girl / Shake Your Rump / Egg Raid On Mojo / Shadrach (Mosh Version) / Holy Snappers / Hey Ladies / Slow And Low (Live) / Pass The Mic / Ask For Janice, Pt.II / Shadrach (Abstract Impressionist Version)
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
Overview: Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records has consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-center albums since its founding in 1996. Drawing on live concert footage, never-before-seen archival material, inner-circle home video and photographs and in-depth interviews with the folks who put Stones Throw on the map, this documentary will delve deeper into the label's enigmatic artists, history, culture and global following.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-21
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The Work of Director Spike Jonze
Overview: When you experience The Work of Director Spike Jonze, you enter a world where anything can happen and frequently does. From the innovative director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation., this superior compilation of music videos, documentaries, interviews, and early rarities offers abundant proof that Jonze is the real deal--a filmmaker ablaze with fresh ideas and fresh ways of filming them. Featuring The Beastie Boys, Bjork, Weezer, The Pharcyde, Fatboy Slim and many others.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-20
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Beastie Boys 'Horseplay'
Overview: After 5 years of calm, these foul-mouthed rappers returned with the release of their 6th album To The 5 Boroughs, the most eagerly anticipated new record of the year so far. This documentary includes exclusive and previously unseen film footage and in-depth interviews with the band and those that have worked closely with the Beastie Boys during their career, including close friends, colleagues, journalists, producers and musicians.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-25
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Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
Overview: The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression. This groundbreaking two-disc anthology showcases eighteen videos containing alternate visual angles and multiple audio tracks. Loaded with never-before-seen footage and unreleased music tracks, this special edition also contains a trove of rare still photos and exclusive audio commentary by the band and the video directors.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-21
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Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Overview: A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV Raps" premiered on August 6, 1988 with hosts Fab 5 Freddy, Ed Lover and Doctor Dré, and shaped the careers of many of today’s hip hop superstars, while simultaneously making groundbreaking strides in introducing hip hop to the mainstream.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-07
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Nathanial Hornblower’s: The Robot V the Octopus Monster Saga
Overview: The full short film used as a basis for the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic. Included as a bonus feature on Criterion's Beastie Boys Video Anthology.
Genres: Music Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-16
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Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
Overview: Solid Gold Hits is a greatest hits collection by Beastie Boys, released in November 2005. In contrast to 1999's The Sounds of Science anthology, Solid Gold Hits consists only of tracks that were released as singles. Where The Sounds of Science is a double CD compilation, Solid Gold Hits contains one CD with all their singles that broke gold, plus a DVD with the respective videos of the songs. Although the standard US release of the CD/DVD has 15 songs, the Japanese release has the song and video for "Right Right Now Now" as the last song.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-08
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Finding the Funk
Overview: Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family Stone, then to Dayton the birthplace of so many of Funk's originators, then onto Detroit where from the ashes of Motown, P-Funk's Mothership arose, and then to LA where a new crop of musicians are creating their own Funk history. On our journey into Funk, we talk to legends Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, and Steve Arrington and their descendants Mike D, D'Angelo, Sheila E, Shock G and Sade's Stuart Matthewman. Narrated by Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson of the Roots.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-31
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Krush Groove
Overview: Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-25
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Fight for Your Right Revisited
Overview: Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell as the "old" Beastie Boys from the future. The story begins where the video for "Fight for Your Right (1987)" ended. It features music from the band's album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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Beastie Boys - Live at Melkweg; Amsterdam
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Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-15
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Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Overview: An all-star cast lead by Richard Dreyfus perform sketches celebrating the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, including new animation done by Disney.
Genres: Family Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-12
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Ciao L.A.
Overview: Three upcoming actors are interviewed on the hit Talk Show, "Ciao LA."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Beastie|ography
Overview: An MTV documentary on the Beastie Boys from their rise to fame to the release of Hello Nasty in ’98.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-17
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Rappin' With The Rickster
Overview: Join photographer turned public access guru Ricky Powell in this collection of clips from his influential NY TV show, Rappin' With The Rickster.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Legend of Dolemite! Bigger & Badder
Overview: Rudy Ray Moore tells all as only he can in this all-new retrospective legendary career. From his humble beginnings to his crowning as "King of the Party Records," Rudy Ray guides us through his struggles and triumphs in the film and music industries.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Beastie Boys: Sabotage
Overview: Includes the songs: Djembe, Gratitude (Live), Sabotage, The Hurricane Freestyle, Triphamnmer, Skills To Pay The Bills (Live), Time For Living, Sabrosa, Something's Got to Give, Screaming At a Wall (Live), Namaste' (Live), Futterman's Rule, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Jimmy James, Conga + Bass, Mullethead, Ricky's Theme, and So What 'Cha Want (Live with Cypress Hill).
Genres: Music Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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Still Ill: 25 Years of 'Ill Communication'
Overview: The Beastie Boys look back on a period of the group's history that spanned from their groundbreaking 1989 album "Paul's Boutique" to the Lollapalooza tour supporting "Ill Communication."
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-30
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Beastie Boys $2 Bill
Overview: The Beastie Boys perform live at the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas on June 09, 2004. This concert was later aired on MTV2.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-09
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Beastie Boys Story
Overview: Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-24
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Celebrity Escape Room
Overview: Jack Black is the master of ceremonies, leading Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Adam Scott, and Ben Stiller through a laugh-filled escape room adventure as they solve puzzles, find clues, and crack jokes to laugh their way through a fun maze of rooms.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Mystery Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-21
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Beastie Boys: Live in Glasgow 1999
Overview: Seminal Beastie Boys concert recorded at the Glasgow SECC in 1999 for MTV. Tracklist: Mix Master Mike Intro | Super Disco Breakin | Flute Loop | Root Down | Shake Your Rump | Time For Livin' | Sure Shot | Mix Master Mike Tricks | Three Mc's and One DJ | Something's Gotta Give | Heart Attack Man | Remote Control | Body Movin (half of) | Time to Get Ill | So What'cha Want | Intergalactic | Sabotage
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-03
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Over Exposed
Overview: A beautiful rock singer, in need of some extra cash, poses for some sexy photos for a men's magazine, without telling her possessive, cocaine-crazed boyfriend. Matters get complicated when she falls in love with the photographer who's taking the pictures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Beastie Boys: Move on Up
Overview: This stellar documentary explores the career of the Beastie Boys, from their hardcore punk beginnings in 1979 to their 2011 release, "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two." Rare footage and photographs, along with interviews, shed light on the enduring band.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-08
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Free Tibet
Overview: A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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