AC/DC: Heavy Metal's Eternal Schoolboys at the O2 Arena
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Financial Times, 17 April 2009
We've got some old songs and some new songs for you," AC/DC's singer Brian Johnson growled, in an accurate but dispiriting précis of the AC/DC concert-going experience. Watching the antique Australian hard rockers perform is like witnessing a venerable but tedious ritual with scant application to the modern world: heavy metal's version of Trooping the Colour.
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