"Sabotage" became the American group's most well-known track.
The Beastie Boys revealed that the classic song "Sabotage" was written about an annoying sound engineer in the band.
The track appears on the 1994 album Ill Communication and has become one of the most famous songs by the New York group.
In the band's autobiography, recently released in the US, Ad-Rock ( Adam Horovitz ) revealed the true inspiration behind the song. He explains that the band worked with a sound engineer named Mario Caldato Jr. , who wasn't happy with the amount of time the group was taking to record.
“We were completely undecided about what, when, and how to finish the songs. Mario was getting frustrated,” Ad-Rock recounts. “That’s a mild way of saying he was going to explode and get pissed off at us, yelling that we needed to finish some song. He’d force any bad instrumental track we had done just to get us out of there.”
He added that “Sabotage,” the last song to be completed on the album, went through several changes. It only came to fruition when Ad-Rock decided that “it would be funny if we wrote a song about Mario holding us back, how he wanted to ruin everything, sabotage our great artistic endeavors.”