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Ad-Rock's Surprise MCA Day Appearance (Photos, Video)
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John Del Signore
Published May 21, 2012
Modified May 21, 2012
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As we reported earlier, The King Ad-Rock (a.k.a. Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz) paid a surprise visit to the MCA Day memorial gathering in Union Square park on Saturday. Here are more photos and videos from the informal memorial, which was organized by Beastie Boys superfan Michael Kearney. In the first video here, Kearney describes how "what's transpiring today is a total testament to the message of Beastie Boys, especially Adam Yauch: you do good things and put positive things out into the universe, people will gravitate toward it."
On Beastie Boys' website yesterday, Horovitz wrote, "good morning. i wanna give thanks to Mike Kearny for putting together MCA DAY yesterday. i feel like a bunch of us been walking around lonely bumping into walls. you got us together, outside and in the sunshine. thank you." Here's video showing Horowitz signing the easels of paper signed by MCA fans, and hugging it out:
There are a lot more of Michelle Lawlor's sweet fisheye lens photos here on the MCA Day Facebook page.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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