soultrane:

“During the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards, Nathaniel Hornblower (a.k.a Adam Yauch from Beastie Boys) interrupting Michael Stipe to protest the shutout of “Sabotage” from every category it was nominated in. Sabotage lost best video to Aerosmith’s “Cryin’,” and also lost to R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” video for both Best Director and Best Breakthrough video”