How Mike D found in his children the strength to return to music after the end of the Beastie Boys: "They didn't listen to my band. I'm just their dad"
Expresso27 August 2026 at 13:52
Mike D, member of the Beastie Boys, releases at age 60 his first solo album, "Thank You," which hits stores this Friday as the first solo work from a band member since the group's end. In an interview with Expresso, the musician explains that it was his children who gave him the strength to return to music, confessing that they "didn't listen to his band" and that to them he is "just dad." With no commercial pressures for the first time in his career, Mike D states that "it's when you don't have to finish anything that you compose your best work," highlighting the creative freedom of working with children and friends.
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