AC/DC
ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST FAMOUS ROCK BANDS IN HISTORY ARE AUSTRALIA’S AC/DC. THEY HAVE TOURED THE WORLD SINCE THE MID-1970S AND THEIR ALBUMS HAVE GONE MULTI-PLATINUM. A LITTLEKNOWN FACT ABOUT THE ROCKERS IS THAT THEIR ORIGINS ARE IN FACT SCOTTISH, SOMETHING THEY’RE VERY PROUD OF. HERE’S A HISTORY OF THEIR MADCAP ANTICS.
Angus and Malcolm Young were born in Glasgow but the family moved to Sydney, Australia, when the boys were young. Angus’ musical career began at the age of five when he restrung a banjo as a guitar. Eventually, he got his trademark Gibson SG and, since then, has never changed instruments. Their brother George had a band, The Easybeats, and gave his younger brothers guitar lessons when he wasn’t touring. He would eventually become AC/DC’s producer.
In 1973, Malcolm and Angus formed AC/DC. They got the band’s name from a sewing machine – AC/DC is an electrical reference. They eventually met another Scottish-born Australian, Bon Scott, who was their driver for a while. After their first singer left, Scott became their frontman. He has been voted as the greatest frontman ever in Classic Rock magazine.