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Check Your Head

Performing artist Beastie Boys

Record company Grand Royal Records

Date1998

Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink

DimensionsOverall (Diameter): 11 13/16 in. (30.004 cm)

Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection

Object number1999.425.28.A-.C

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Portal Description

Check Your Head is the third studio album by the American Rap-Rock group Beastie Boys, released on April 21, 1992 by Capitol Records. The album features instrumental contributions from all three members: Adam Horovitz on guitar, Adam Yauch on bass guitar, and Mike Diamond on drums.

Beastie Boys is a Rock-Rap group from New York City. The group members include Mike D (Mike Diamond, b. 1966), MCA (Adam Yauch 1965-2012), and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz, b. 1967). After the success of their first Hip-Hop track, "Cooky Puss" in 1983, they turned into a Rap group that include Punk Rock tracks in their sound. Beastie Boys were prominent in the mid-'80s with their hit-singles "The New Style" and "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!),” which led to them being signed by Russel Simmons and Rick Rubin’s label Def Jam in 1985.

Physical Description

Front cover: Three men are sitting on the curb posing. Beastie Boys is printed on the top and Check Your Head is printed on the bottom. Back cover: A collage of pictures of the band. The track list and credits are printed on vinyl.

CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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