More Stories

• 

  Entertainment

  The Guardian

  AC/DC – their 40 greatest songs, ranked!

  AC/DC – their 40 greatest songs, ranked!As Back in Black turns 40, we run down the Australian hard rockers’ best numbers – full of double entendres, massive choruses and surging, strutting riffs

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Conversation

  AC/DC’s Back in Black at 40 – establishing rock bands as brands

  Released in 1980, AC/DC's Back in Black established a sound and a way bands could be powerful brands that would reverberate through rock for years to come.

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Independent

  The 10 greatest AC/DC songs, from Whole Lotta Rosie to Back in Black

  Forty years ago today, the legendary AC/DC album Back in Black was released – and there was a lot riding on it. For one thing, it was the band’s first album with new vocalist Brian Johnson, who had replaced Bon Scott after his untimely death just a few months previously. Doom merchants predicted that the band would never recover from this seemingly mortal blow, but the self-effacing Geordie proved to be an inspired choice. Back in Black was a triumph, the starting point for much that was to come

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Telegraph

  Death, monsoons and Tibetan bells: how AC/DC's Back in Black saved heavy metal

  Tony Platt still remembers the shock. AC/DC’s sound engineer was sitting with the band’s producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange in a recording studio in Willesden, north west London, on a drab February day in 1980. The duo had worked on the Australian rock band’s Highway to Hell album the previous year but were at the console desk that day on more mundane business: mixing an album by a here-today-gone-tomorrow band called Broken Home. There was a knock at the door. Someone was on the phone for Lange down

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Guardian

  Highway to Hell review – Perth festival pulls off joyous AC/DC covers concert for the ages

  Highway to Hell review – Perth festival pulls off joyous AC/DC covers concert for the ages. With epic choruses ricocheting through the city, Canning Highway hasn’t seen this level of street drinking since the man of the hour was a wee Bonnie

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  Entertainment

  The Guardian

  Highway to Hell: 10km of major Perth highway to shut for AC/DC covers concert

  The AC/DC event – the first of its kind – will close 2020’s Perth festival. Photograph: Michael Ochs ArchivesAustralian music legend Bon Scott will get the epic tribute he deserves in March, when 10km of Perth’s Canning Highway will be closed for eight hours to host the world’s longest music festival stage: a roving concert, rolling from one end to another, devoted to AC/DC covers.On 1 March 2020, 10 semi-trailers – eight topped with live bands playing AC/DC songs – will be taking over the high

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  The Conversation

  Malcolm Young: AC/DC guitarist who helped define heavy rock's guitar sound

  As guitarist in Australia's most successful band, Young provided the driving rhythm that underpinned AC/DC's heavy rock sound.

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  The Independent

  Malcolm Young: guitarist behind some of the most legendary songs in rock

  Malcolm Young had to relinquish his role as rhythm guitarist in AC/DC, the hugely popular and durable Australian rock band with Scottish roots that he had co-founded, when he could no longer remember songs he helped to write and had performed for decades. Dementia forced Young to retire in 2014, ending a partnership with younger brother and lead guitarist Angus, who said they had “created riffs nobody else made”. Barely three years later, Malcolm died peacefully, aged 64, with his wife, son an

  Thanks for your feedback!
• 

  News

  The Guardian

  Malcolm Young obituary

  Malcolm Young, who has died aged 64, was the driving force behind AC/DC, the rock outfit that sold more than 200m albums over 40 years to become one of the highest-grossing bands of all time. Malcolm often took the crucial decisions about the band’s strategy, and he became notorious for abruptly firing various managers, producers and band members. AC/DC rocketed into rock’s front rank with the release of Highway to Hell in 1979.

  Thanks for your feedback!