The Beastie Boys: Excess All Areas
Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 21 March 1987
With the Licensed To Ill album a Number 1 in America and the 'Fight For Your Right' single commandeering the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic, THE BEASTIE BOYS have finally arrived in a very big way indeed. And as far as some people are concerned they are Public Enemy Number One. Ted Mico joined the rampant B-Boy army as they scythed through the southern heartland of the US. Why have they been banned from every hotel in the union? Why were they nearly arrested in Alabama? And just where do the Ku Klux Klan fit into all this? Read on.
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