Brian Johnson
Born | October 5, 1947 |
Hometown | Dunston, County Durham, England |
Net worth | $90 million |
Height | 5'5" (1.65m) |
Spouse | Carol (m 1968 - present) , Brenda |
Children | Kala Johnson , Joanne Johnson |
Parents | Esther Johnson , Alan Johnson |
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Dave Grohl calls on superstar pals for tour van documentary trailer
Ringo Starr, Lars Ulrich, Flea, and Slash are among the stars who have opened up about life on the road in the new trailer for Dave Grohl's documentary What Drives Us.Directed by the Foo Fighters frontman, the teaser also features Radkey and Starcrawler - two aspiring bands currently on the road - among the stars recounting their early touring days. "You’ve got to get in a van if you want to make it in this business," Starr says, opening the trailer, which also features L7’s Jennifer Finch, AC/D
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AC/DC score first number one album in a decade with Power Up
The veteran rockers also smashed a chart record.
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AC/DC: ‘Malcolm was there in the studio and we all knew it’
The rock’n’roll heroes return after four years and the death of founding guitarist Malcolm Young with a new album and a mission to reverse how rock has ‘dropped out of mainstream music’. They talk to Laura Barton
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‘Vulgar, crass, and loud’: why AC/DC were at their best when nobody liked them
In the spring of 1980, Brian Johnson was a part-time rocker and a full-time roofer whose life was about to change in enormous ways. Offered the job as singer with AC/DC just 38-days after the death of his predecessor Bon Scott (of acute alcohol poisoning) the 32-year old whippet-owning Geordie was given a piece of advice by Malcolm and Angus Young, the group’s fraternal rhythm and lead guitarists. “You know the first thing [they] said to me when I joined this band?” he recalled to the writer Syl
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AC/DC: Power Up review – the last crank up to 11?
AC/DC: Power Up review – the last crank up to 11?. (Columbia)The band’s first album in six years is a riotous hymn to unreconstructed rock, not to mention something of a medical miracle
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AC/DC review, Power Up: An unruly and un-woke 17th album rocks as hard as ever
Having survived a confluence of circumstances that made it seem like AC/DC’s studio career was over, the rockers make a welcome return with a rowdy new record
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AC/DC, Power Up, review: a rip-roaring comeback from the ageing warriors of rock
Although most fans surely never expected to hear from them again, Australia’s most gnarly heavy rockers have plugged their amps back in and whacked the dials up to 11. AC/DC’s 17th album, Power Up, starts as it means to go on, with a double power chord whammy that could make The Who weak at their knees, while 73-old Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson howls in the screeching register of the world’s angriest bartender trying to make himself heard during chucking out time at a monsters of rock festival
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AC/DC reunite remaining members of classic line-up for new album
Founding member Angus Young is leading the group's first project since 2014.
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AC/DC announce new album POWER UP with classic lineup and release new song ‘Shot in the Dark'
Album featuring surviving original lineup will be released later this year
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AC/DC reunite, featuring three former members
AC/DC reunite, featuring three former members. Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams return alongside drummer Phil Rudd, who was replaced after being sentenced on drug and threat charges
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