The Beastie Boys rented this house in Los Angeles while working on Paul's Boutique after their stint at the Mondrian Hotel. The G-Spot nickname came from the large gold "G" on the front of the building which presumably stood for the house's owner Marilyn Grasshoff. They would end up raiding her closet for the '70s clothes they wore in the video for "Hey Ladies."

The photo of the Beastie Boys underwater was shot by photographer Ricky Powell from Ad-Rock's underground guesthouse bedroom that featured a window into the swimming pool.

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On April 1, 2002, American writer Ray Bradbury had a Walk of Fame star in Hollywood dedicated to him at this location.

Bradbury is the author of several pieces of fiction that became films: Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), and the 1956 screenplay collaboration with John Ford for Moby Dick.

Bradbury also provided teleplays and stories for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956-1962), The Martian Chronicles (1980), and the eponymous program The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985-1992).

Bradbury died at his home in Los Angeles on June 6, 2012 at the age of 91.

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Built in 1918, this 10-bedroom mansion in Laurel Canyon was where producer Rick Rubin recorded the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. After the success of the project at the location, Rubin bought the mansion and has recorded many albums here: RHCP's Stadium Arcadium, Audioslave's Out of Exile, The Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium, as well as many others.

Jay-Z recorded "99 Problems" here with Rubin for The Black Album in 2003.

The Mansion also served as the filming location for the 2nd season of Californication as the home of drug-addled über-producer Lew Ashby.

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After the Beastie Boys released Paul's Boutique, they wanted to spend a serious amount of time getting instrumental before their next album.

Their manager at the time recalls Ad-Rock getting outfitted for his guitar at Westwood Music. Apparently, Ad-Rock wanted a guitar with a finish like the one Bob Marley had- consideration of tone wasn't the primary motivation for selection.

At the time of the release of Check Your Head, not many people realized that the Beastie Boys actually knew how to play instruments before they started rapping. The cover of Check York Head (taken by famed photographer Glen Friedman) is supposed to evoke an instrument-armed Beastie Boys version of the Minor Threat Salad Days cover (which Friedman also shot).

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Back when the Beastie Boys had their G-Sons Studio in Silver Lake, CA, Spike Jonze came over to check things out. Mike D, MCA, and Jonze went out to some thrift stores, a K-Mart, and this wig and beauty supply store. They bought a bunch of wigs and started to play around. By the next day they knew they were on to something...

They used the wigs (and the clothes) in the Spike Jonze-directed "Sabotage" video. For the video, they were all supposed to grow mustaches, but only Ad-Rock (the actor) ended up growing a real po-po 'stache.

At the 1994 MTV Video Awards, "Sabotage" was nominated for five different categories and lost in all of them.

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