“I co-wrote most of everything on the Beastie Boys album”: Rick Rubin on his greatest hits of the ’80s - from the Beasties to Roy Orbison

The young Rick Rubin.

Rick Rubin became famous in the ’80s as the producer of some of the greatest hip-hop and rock records of that decade - from Run-DMC’s Raising Hell and the Beastie Boys' Licensed To Ill to Slayer’s Reign In Blood and The Cult's Electric.

But by 1989 he had quit Def Jam, the label he co-founded with Russell Simmons, and relocated from his native New York City to Los Angeles to launch a new record label, Def American.