Early Life
Adam Yauch was born as an only child in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a social worker, and a painter and architect. His father had been raised a Catholic and his mother was Jewish. Yauch had a non-religious upbringing.
Yauch attended Edward R. Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. In high school, he taught himself to play the bass guitar. Yauch formed the Beastie Boys with John Berry, Kate Schellenbach, and Michael Diamond. They played their first show — while still a hardcore punk band in the vein of Reagan Youth — on his 17th birthday. He attended Bard College for two years before dropping out.
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