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AC/DC are an Australian hard rock band, formed in November 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, who have remained constant members. Commonly referred to as a hard rock or blues rock band, they are also considered pioneers of heavy metal and are sometimes classified as such, though they have always dubbed their music as simply "rock and roll". To date they are one of the highest-grossing bands of all time.

This book is your ultimate resource for AC DC. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about AC DC's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: AC/DC, '74 Jailbreak, AC/DC (electricity), AC/DC (video), AC/DC Live, AC/DC discography, AC/DShe, ACDC Lane, ARIA Hall of Fame, Albert Productions, Alternating current, Angus Bucks, Angus Young, Anything Goes (AC/DC song), Are You Ready (AC/DC song), Atco Records, B.J. Wilson, Baby, Please Don't Go, Back in Black, Back in Black (song), Back in Black Tour, Backtracks (AC/DC album), Bagpipes, Ballbreaker, Ballbreaker World Tour, Big Gun, Big Jack (song), Black Ice (album), Black Ice World Tour, Black Sabbath, Blow Up Your Video, Blow Up Your Video World Tour, Blues rock, Bon Scott…and more pages!

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Publié par	Emereo Publishing
Date de parution	31 mai 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781488512124
Langue	English
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Contents

Articles AC/DC '74 Jailbreak AC/DC (electricity) AC/DC (video) AC/DC Live AC/DC discography AC/DShe ACDC Lane

ARIA Hall of Fame

Albert Productions Alternating current Angus Bucks Angus Young Anything Goes (AC/DC song) Are You Ready (AC/DC song) Atco Records B.J. Wilson Baby, Please Don't Go Back in Black Back in Black (song) Back in Black Tour Backtracks (AC/DC album) Bagpipes Ballbreaker Ballbreaker World Tour Big Gun Big Jack (song) Black Ice (album) Black Ice World Tour Black Sabbath Blow Up Your Video Blow Up Your Video World Tour Blues rock Bon Scott

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Bonfire (album) Brendan O'Brien (music producer) Brian Johnson Bruce Fairbairn Can I Sit Next to You Girl Chris Slade Clipped Club Dates/Rolling Stones Tour Colin Burgess (musician) Compass Point Studios Countdown (Australian TV series) Cover You in Oil Danger (song) Dave Evans (singer) Dio (band) Direct current Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (song) Dog Eat Dog (song) Donington Park

Download Festival East West Records Family Jewels (AC/DC album) Flick of the Switch Flick of the Switch/Monsters of Rock Tour Flick of the Switch (song) Flint, Michigan Fly on the Wall (AC/DC album) Fly on the Wall (video) Fly on the Wall Tour For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) For Those About to Rock (film) For Those About to Rock Tour For Those About to Rock We Salute You Fraternity (band) Fremantle Geordie (band) George Young (rock musician)

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278 281 285 287 307 310 312 317 320 321 325 329 332 347 350

Girls Got Rhythm Guns for Hire Hail Caesar (song) Hard as a Rock Hard rock Harry Vanda Heatseeker (song) Heavy metal music Hell's Belles (band) Hells Bells (song) High Voltage (1975 album) High Voltage (1976 album) High Voltage (song) Highway to Hell Highway to Hell (song) If You Want Blood You've Got It Iron Maiden Iron Man 2 Iron Man 2 (soundtrack) It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll) Jailbreak (AC/DC song) Jam session Judas Priest Kerrang! Larry Van Kriedt Las Ventas Last Action Hero Leganés Let's Get It Up Let There Be Rock Let There Be Rock (song) Live '77 Live at Donington (AC/DC album) Live at River Plate

Live at River Plate (album) Live from the Atlantic Studios Lock Up the Wolves Love at First Feel

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Malcolm Young Marcus Hook Roll Band Mark Evans (musician) Maximum Overdrive Mike Fraser Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto Money Made Moneytalks Monsters of Rock Moxy (band) Nervous Shakedown Night Prowler (song) No Bull Nutbush City Limits Ocean Way Recording Pavillon de Paris

Perth Peter Clack Phil Rudd Plug Me In Powerage Rhino Bucket Rick Rubin Rob Bailey (musician) Rock 'N Roll Train Rock 'n' Roll Damnation Rock Band Rock Band 2 Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution Rolling Stone Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Safe in New York City Satellite Blues School Days (song) Severe acute respiratory syndrome Shake Your Foundations Sherbet (band)

Shoot to Thrill

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Simon Wright (musician) Sink the Pink Skyhooks (band) Slade Stade de France Stephen King

Steven Tyler Stevie Young Stiff Upper Lip (album) Stiff Upper Lip (song) Stiff Upper Lip World Tour Studio Miraval Swanston Street, Melbourne T.N.T. (album) T.N.T. (song) Ted Albert Terry Slesser That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll The Apollo (Glasgow) The Easybeats The Razors Edge (album) The Valentines (rock band) The Warehouse Studio The Wiggles Thin Lizzy Thunderstruck (song) Tony Platt Touch Too Much Tribute act UFO (band) Ulster Hall Volts (album) Who Made Who World Tour Whole Lotta Rosie You Shook Me All Night Long

References Article Sources and Contributors

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AC/DC

AC/DC, from L-R: Brian Johnson, Malcolm Young, Phil Rudd, Angus Young, Cliff Williams, performing at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma on 31 August 2009. Background information

Origin

Genres

Years active

Labels

Associated acts

Website

Members

Past members

Sydney, Australia

Hard rock, blues rock, rock and roll

1973–present

Albert, EMI, Columbia, Epic, Atlantic, Atco, Elektra, East West

Geordie, The Easybeats, Fraternity, The Valentines, Marcus Hook Roll Band, Rhino Bucket

[1] www.acdc.com

Angus Young Malcolm Young Phil Rudd Cliff Williams Brian Johnson

Dave Evans Larry Van Kriedt Colin Burgess Neil Smith Ron Carpenter Russell Coleman Noel Taylor Peter Clack Rob Bailey Bon Scott Mark Evans Simon Wright Chris Slade

AC/DCare an Australian hard rock band, formed in November 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, who [2] have remained constant members. Commonly referred to as a hard rock or blues rock band, they are also [] considered pioneers of heavy metal and are sometimes classified as such, though they have always dubbed their [] music as simply "rock and roll". To date they are one of the highest-grossing bands of all time.

AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album,High Voltage, on 17 February 1975. Membership subsequently stabilised until bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 for the album

AC/DC

Powerage. Within months of recording the albumHighway to Hell, lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980 after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group briefly considered disbanding, but buoyed [] by support from Scott's parents, decided to continue and set about finding a new vocalist. Ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was auditioned and selected to replace Scott. Later that year, the band released the new album,Back in Black, which was made as a tribute to Bon Scott. The album launched them to new heights of success and became their all time best-seller.

The band's next album,For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was their first album to reach number one in the United States. AC/DC declined in popularity soon after drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and was replaced by future Dio drummer Simon Wright. The band experienced a resurgence in the early 1990s with the release ofThe Razors Edge. Phil Rudd returned in 1994 after Chris Slade, who was with the band from 1989–1994, was asked to leave in favour of him, and contributed to the band's 1995 albumBallbreaker. Since then, the band's line-up has remained the same.Stiff Upper Lipwas released in 2000 and was well received by critics, and the band's latest studio album,Black Ice, was released on 20 October 2008 and was the second-highest-selling album of that year. It was [] their biggest hit on the charts sinceFor Those About to Rock, eventually reaching No.1 on all charts worldwide. [3] As of 2010, AC/DC had sold more than 200million albums worldwide, including 71 million albums in the United [] States alone.Back in Blackhas sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the second-highest-selling album by any artist–behind only Michael Jackson'sThriller–and the highest-selling album by any band. The [] album has sold 22 million units in the U.S. alone, where it is the sixth-highest-selling album of all time. AC/DC [4][5] ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" and were named the seventh "Greatest [6] Heavy Metal Band of All Time" by MTV. In 2004, AC/DC were ranked number 72 in theRolling Stonelist of the [7] "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". In 2010, AC/DC were ranked number 23 in theVH1list of the "100 Greatest [8] Artists of All Time".

History

Background and name Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Sydney with most of their family in 1963. George was the first to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of the Easybeats, one of Australia's most successful bands of the 1960s. In 1966, they became the first local rock act to have an international [] hit, with the song "Friday on My Mind". Malcolm followed in George's footsteps by playing with a Newcastle, New South Wales band called the Velvet Underground (not to be confused with the New York-based Velvet [] Underground). Their oldest brother Alex Young chose to remain in Britain to pursue musical interests. In 1967, Alexander formed and played bass in the London-based band Grapefruit—initially called "The Grapefruit"—with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, John Perry, Geoff Swettenham, and Pete Swettenham. Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the band's name after their sister, Margaret Young, saw the initials "AC/DC" on a sewing machine. "AC/DC" is an abbreviation meaning "alternating current/direct current" electricity. The brothers felt that this name symbolised the band's raw energy, power-driven performances of their [9][] music. "AC/DC" is pronounced one letter at a time, though the [10][11] band are colloquially known as "Acca Dacca" in Australia.The band's logo was designed in 1977 by Gerard Huerta, commissioned by Bob Defrin, the art director at Atlantic Records during the 1970s. It first appeared on the international version ofLet There Be Rock.

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Early years In November 1973 Malcolm and Angus Young formed AC/DC and recruited bassist Larry Van Kriedt, vocalist Dave [12] Evans, and Colin Burgess, ex-Masters Apprentices drummer. Pushing hard for the band's success were Australia's legendary roadie Ray Arnold and his partner Alan Kissack. The two men convinced Chequers entertainment [] manager Gene Pierson to let the band play at the popular Sydney nightclub on New Year's Eve, 1973. The band was so loud that management complained. Pierson however took an interest, and booked them into the Bondi Lifesaver [citation needed] and other venues where they further developed their stage show. The early line-up of the band changed often; Colin Burgess was the first member fired, and several bassists and drummers passed through the band during the next year. By this time, Angus Young had adopted his characteristic school-uniform stage outfit. The idea was his sister Margaret's. Angus had tried other costumes: Spider-Man, Zorro, a gorilla, and a parody of Superman, named [] Super-Ang. In its early days, most members of the band dressed in some form of glam or satin outfit but this approach was abandoned seeing as Melbourne band Skyhooks had already adopted this approach to their stage presentation. The Young brothers decided that Evans was not a suitable frontman for the group because they felt he was more of a [] glam rocker like Gary Glitter. On stage, Evans was occasionally replaced by the band's first manager, Dennis Laughlin, who was the original lead singer with Sherbet prior to Daryl Braithwaite joining the band. Evans did not [] get along with Laughlin, which also contributed to the band's ill feeling toward Evans. Gene Pierson brokered the arrangement for Bon Scott from Fraternity to join as lead singer. He was also instrumental in getting personal friend Ted Albert of Albert Productions to listen to AC/DC and arrange with programme manager Rod Muir of Australia's biggest rock station 2SM to have them on the bill for one of their school holiday concerts at Chequers which helped launch AC/DC's career and led to their being signed to the [citation needed] EMI-distributed Albert Productions label for Australia and New Zealand.

The Bon Scott era (1974–1980)

The journey begins (1974–1977) In September 1974 Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott, an experienced vocalist and friend of George Young, replaced Dave [] Evans. Like the Young brothers, Scott had been born in Scotland before emigrating to Australia in his childhood. The band had recorded only one single with Evans, "Can I Sit Next To You, Girl" / "Rockin' in the Parlour"; eventually, the song was re-written and re-recorded with Bon Scott as "Can I Sit Next to You Girl" [Track 7 on the Australian albumT.N.T.(1975), and Track 6 on the international release ofHigh Voltage(1976)]. [] By October 1974, the Australia-only albumHigh Voltageand was basedhad been recorded. It took only ten days on instrumental songs written by the Young brothers, with lyrics added by Scott. Within a few months, the band's line-up had stabilised, featuring Scott, the Young brothers, bassist Mark Evans and drummer Phil Rudd. Later that year they released the single "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", which became their [] perennial rock anthem. It was included on their second album,T.N.T.(1975), which was also released only in Australia and New Zealand.T.N.T.featured the song "High Voltage", which was the first song written and recorded for the album. Because "High Voltage" was released as a single beforeT.N.T.was released, some people thought it was the title track to AC/DC's debut album. Between 1974 and 1977, aided by regular appearances on Molly Meldrum'sCountdown, the ABC's nationally broadcast pop-music television show, AC/DC became one of the most popular and successful acts in Australia. Their [] performance on 3 April 1977 was their last live TV appearance for more than 20 years.