John Berry, Beastie Boys Founding Member, Dies at 52

[Marley]

John Berry, a founding member of the Beastie Boys who is credited with concocting the group's name, died Thursday morning at a Danvers, Massachusetts, hospice, Rolling Stone reports. He was 52.

[dara]

He was in the band in the beginning, but only was with them for about a year, and on their first EP, the hard core punk Pollywog Stew. Nice of the band to fully credit him. Too young to go regardless.

[wickedjoker]

Wow 52 isn't very old