Beastie Boys' ``In a World Gone Mad...'' Free Download Rush Released Worldwide Today; Available Now at www.beastieboys.com.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia assets available A photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.031103/bb9 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2003 Beastie Boys Beastie Boys is a hip hop musical group from New York City consisting of Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "MCA" Yauch, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz and the official DJ for the group Michael "Mix Master Mike" Schwartz. announced today that they would be making the brand new track "In A World Gone Mad..." available for free download effective immediately. "We felt it was important to comment on where the U.S. appears to be heading now," explained Beastie Boy Adam Yauch. "A war in Iraq will not resolve our problems. It can only result in the deaths of many innocent civilians and U.S. troops. If we are truly striving for safety, we need to build friendships, not try to bully the rest of the world." "Being together, writing and recording," Mike D adds, "We felt it would be irresponsible not to address what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in the world while the events are still current. It didn't make sense to us to wait until the entire record was finished to release this song." "This song is not an anti-American or pro-Saddam Hussein statement," says Adam Horovitz. "This is a statement against an unjustified war." "In A World Gone Mad..." can be downloaded at Beastieboys.com, moveon.org, winwithoutwarUS.org, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. .com, and milarepa.org. Lyrics lyrics npl [of song] → paroles fpl lyrics lyric npl [of song] → Text m are available at www.beastieboys.com. Note: A photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.031103/bb9 |
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