Throwback: Happy 60th Birthday, Mike D.!

At this point, we’ve made it through about 90% of the year. It’s been a brutal soul-sucking slog of a year hasn’t it? But the show must go on as they say. 

So, November is a busy month of music birthdays. 

• Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ frontman Anthony Kiedis celebrated his 63rd birthday on November 1
• Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen celebrated his 62nd birthday on November 1
• Mobb Deep’s Prodigy  was born 51 years ago on November 2
• ONYX’s Sticky Fingaz celebrated his 52nd birthday on November 3 
• Radiohead‘s and The Smile‘s Jonny Greenwood celebrated his 54th birthday on November 5
• Bryan Adams celebrated his 66th birthday on November 5
• The Screaming Eagle of Soul, Charles Bradley was born 77 years ago on November 5
• Living Colour‘s powerhouse frontman Corey Glover celebrated his 61st birthday on November 6
• Bad Religion frontman Dr. Greg Graffin celebrated his 61st birthday on November 6 
• The Eagles‘ Glenn Frey was born 77 years ago on November 6
• The incomparable and legendary Joni Mitchell celebrated her 82nd birthday on November 7
• Bonnie Raiit celebrated her 76th birthday on November 8
• Salt-N-Pepa‘s Sandra “Pepa” Denton celebrated her 56th birthday on November 9
• Scarface, one of my favorite rappers ever celebrated his 55th — yes, 55th! — birthday on November 9
• Eric B and Rakim‘s Eric B celebrated his 62nd birthday on November 9
• Warren G. celebrated his 55th — yes, 55th! — birthday on November 10
• XTC co-founder and primary songwriter Andy Partridge celebrated his 72nd birthday on November 11
• Neil Young celebrated his 80th — yes, y’all, 80th! — birthday on November 12
• Booker T celebrated his 81st birthday on November 12
• Run DMC‘s Rev. Run celebrated his 61st birthday on November 14
• Wu-Tang Clan‘s Ol’ Dirty Bastard was born 57 years ago today on November 15
• Jeff Buckley, was born 59 years ago on November 17
• New Edition’s and Bell Biv DeVoe‘s Ronnie DeVoe celebrated his 58th birthday on November 17
• The legendary, Detroit-born, jazz singer/songwriter and musician Sheila Jordan was born 97 years ago on November 18
• Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett celebrates his 63rd birthday on November 18
• The legendary Dr. John was born 84 years ago today

As a lifelong music obsessive — and as a hip hop head, the Beastie Boys meant a lot to me. And if you’re a child of the 80s as I am, you listened to — and loved, a lot of Beastie Boys songs and albums.

Mike D. celebrates his 60th — yes, y’all, 60th! — birthday today. So let’s celebrate Mike D’s life and legendary work today. Happy  birthday, man! May there be many, many more!

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