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ACDC BIOGRAPHY |
08 February 2010 |
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AC/DC were formed in 1973 in Melbourne Australia and initially comprised brothers Angus (lead guitar, grimace, school caps, shorts and satchel) and Malcolm Young (rhythm guitar, lank locks, sloping shoulders) along with Bon Scott (leather-lungs, bagpipes, swollen liver), Mark Evans (plodding bass) and Phil Rudd (drums and cannon). And named by the Young's mother who, unaware of any bisexual connotations, noticed the potential moniker on a warning sign. "I started wearing my schoolboy suit because the band I was in rehearsed right after school, so I was already wearing it, and so by the time AC/DC started, a lot of people expected to seem me wearing my schoolboy suit." Angus Young. |
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Scottish emigre Bon Scott's multifarious convictions on minor criminal offences and the fact that he'd been rejected by the Australian Army because he was considered "socially maladjusted" immediately endeared him to Angus and guaranteed him a position in the band. |
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Soon tiring of the road following the band's relocation to London in 1976, Mark Evans quits in June '77 to be replaced by Romford-born four-stringer Cliff Williams. |
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Following a show in San Antonio, Texas a fantastically intoxicated Bon Scott decided to impress upon his companions just what manner of man they were dealing with by downing an entire bottle of booze in one gulp. Unfortunately it's a bottle of after-shave. |
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Shortly after the release of the band's first million-selling album Highway To Hell, hard-living Bon Scott consumed Herculean quantities of alcohol at Camden's Music Machine club on 19 February, 1980. Later that night he passed into unconsciousness in a car parked outside his East Dulwich home and the following morning was pronounced dead on arrival at King's College Hospital. The coroner pronounced a verdict of death by misadventure, adding that the 33-year-old singer had "drunk himself to death". "I do it for the glamour, the women and the whisky. What else is there in life?" Bon Scott had once said. |
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During the 1989 invasion of Panama, American troops endeavoured to drive Manuel Noriega out of his stronghold in the Vatican Embassy by repeatedly playing the title track of Highway To Hell at full volume. With AC/DC's music now being used as a means of psychological torture Brian Johnson opined "I guess now we won't get to play for The Pope". |
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More albums followed. They played live. They took time off. They won a Kerrang! Lifetime Achievement award and Brian Johnson and Angus Young drank tea at the ceremony. The Stereophonics paid homage. |
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