- Music
- 20 May 16
Beastie Boys' John Berry dies
Founding member of the hip hop group has passed away.
John Berry, one of the original line-up Beastie Boys has died aged 52.
He had suffered from frontal lobe dementia and passed away at a hospice in Massachusetts.
The guitarist on the band's first EP left the group in 1982 but was recognised as a founding member when the hip hop group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.