After grieving the loss of a bandmate, a Beastie Boy makes his solo return

Beastie Boys’ Mike D on his party days of yore: ‘We were full of testosterone’

Forty years on from his trailblazing group’s incendiary debut, the New York-born rapper is releasing his first solo record. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about their raucous hard-partying early years, clashing with label…