Beastie Boys have revealed that the gold record version of ‘Paul’s Boutique’ actually didn’t contain any music from the album at all.Members Ad-Rock and Mike D.
shared the news as part of a new interview on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast, recalling the time that they made the discovery about their gold record.They were given the award after their 1989 album was certified gold just two months after its original release date, having sold 500,000 copies.
However, after deconstructing the plaque they were presented with – which seemingly contained a copy of the LP – they discovered the vinyl actually did not contain their music at all.“So we’re at our studio here in California and I was smoking the pot,” Ad-Rock began.“This was a long time ago.
We had a gold record on the wall, it was our record, ‘Paul’s Boutique’. I was looking at it and I could see it had our label and I could see that it had like nine songs on the one side.
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