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AC/DC: Marquee, London

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 21 August 1976

THOSE PUZZLED by the Status Quo phenomenon should beware. AC/DC, from the same rock family, could wreak similar havoc, but they will only realise their ...

AC/DC

Interview by Martin Aston, Auckland Star, 1990

"Just what are the East Germans who flock across the crumbled Berlin Wall spending their money on? While champagne and fresh fruit were once hot ...

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AC/DC's Angus Young (1990)

Interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1990

The axe-wielding overgrown schoolboy talks about bunking off and missing his education; the music that got to him in his youth; rock in Australia, and the Australian audience's attitudes; ignoring the standard metal devil worship; the commercial ups-and-downs of the band; the songs on new album The Razor's Edge; rock as a release; the flashy American metal bands, and his avoidance of politics.

File format: mp3; file size: 49.1mb, interview length: 51' 07" sound quality: ***

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AC/DC: Australia has Punk Rock bands too, y'know

Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 19 April 1975

LADEES AND GENTLEMEN, introducing one of the few bands in Australia that deserves the tag of a real street punk band...putcha fists together in ominous ...

AC/DC: Gonna be a Rock'n'Roll Singer...

Profile and Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 23 April 1976

Au Revoir to Angus, Bon, Malcolm, Mark & Phil, otherwise known as AC/DC, leaving for England to crack The Big Time. ...

AC/DC: Nashville Rooms, London

Live Review by Caroline Coon, Melody Maker, 8 May 1976

AC/DC'S SINGLE 'IT'S A Long Way To The Top', has a lot to answer for. First, since its weird, bagpipe-drone of a break sounded unusually ...

AC/DC: The Fastest Knees in the West

Report and Interview by Geoff Barton, Sounds, 12 June 1976

AC/DC, outrageous Aussie punk-rock combo, this week start their rampage across Britain under the SOUNDS banner. Are we doing the right thing? Are schoolboys the future of rock and roll? GEOFF ...

More Songs about Humping and Booze

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 24 July 1976

'You get nothin for nothin'/Who can you trust?/We got what you want/You got the lust/You want blood – you got it . ...

AC/DC: The Dirtiest Story Ever Told

Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 August 1976

An everyday story of rape, pillage, runny noses, drunken orgies, broken wind, assaults on and by police, sweat-soaked Luncheon Vouchers, and the 279-pound lady who ...

AC/DC: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 20 November 1976

Just acting satchelly ...

AC/DC: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 20 November 1976

THE EMCEE only just ducks into the wings and out of the firing range when the Odeon stage explodes deafeningly. Bruised about the head, their ...

AC/DC: High Voltage (Atco SD 36-1420)

Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1976

I WOULD GUESS that you have to be Australian to really understand this band. Or maybe Scottish. All I know is that not too many ...

Little River Band, Sherbet, AC/DC: Up Starts

Profile and Interview by Toby Goldstein, Jim Green, Circus, 14 February 1977

Three Australian Bands Hit The U.S. ...

AC/DC: Current affairs

Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 5 March 1977

Harry Doherty travels to Cardiff to see how AC/DC are steadily working their way to the top ...

AC/DC: Let There Be Rock

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 22 October 1977

AC/DC ARE A 4-letter word band. If you don't like, them and some misadventure elbows you into their firing line the foulest oaths would be ...

AC/DC: Sex, Snot, Sweat and School Kids

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 29 October 1977

AC/DC: The Mayfair, Newcastle ...

AC/DC Hit California

Report and Interview by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, November 1977

AC/DC PLAYED their West Coast debut at the legendary Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, with the club fully living up to its legend ...

AC/DC: Mayfair, Newcastle

Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 13 May 1978

ANGUS YOUNG has got himself some new front teeth. An elegant row of even ivories that wouldn't look out of place in the mouth of ...

AC/DC Would Really Like To Be As Successful Here As They Are In England, But…

Interview by Anthony O'Grady, RAM, 14 July 1978

IT'S EASY TO find AC/DC in the airport terminal. Just look for a mob of tough looking Scotsmen drinking at the public bar and the ...

AC/DC: If You Want Blood You've Got It (Atlantic K50532)

Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 11 November 1978

WHAT CAN you say? AC/DC. A live album. An inevitable live album, given the knowledge that they're one of the best heavy metal bands around ...

AC/DC: More Songs About Humping And Booze

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 28 July 1979

HAVE AC/DC GONE DISCO? 'NAH' SNARLS PHILTHY PHIL SUTCLIFFE ...

The Who / The Stranglers/ AC/DC /Nils Lofgren: Wembley Stadium, London

Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 25 August 1979

NOT ONE OF the great Wembley encounters, we decided, as the car crept another couple of feet in the late Saturday evening jam. ...

Who, Stranglers: Laser Laser On The Wall Who Are Complacent After All

Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 25 August 1979

THE MIDDLE OF the evening and it's getting quite dim. The Who are playing a new song; at least, I take it to be a ...

AC/DC Plugs Into Primitivism

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1979

AC/DC: Long Beach Arena ...

AC/DC, Prism: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1979

AC/DC Plugs Into Primitivism ...

AC/DC: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 13 October 1979

AC/DC discover harmony... after a fashion ...

AC/DC Current Rock

Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 5 January 1980

BARING ALL: AC/DC ...

AC/DC, Humble Pie: Capital Centre, Landover MD

Live Review by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 4 August 1980

AC/DC, WHO played to 16,000 at the Capital Centre last night, are rock's current shock troops. One doesn't enjoy an AC/DC performance as much as ...

Fantasy Castle: Monsters of Rock!

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, July 1981

BARNEY HOSKYNS straps on his breastplate, girds his loins and takes his sword to the HM Monsters Of Rock joust at Castle Donington. ...

For Those About To Yawn: AC/DC: For Those About To Rock (Atlantic K50851) ***

Review by Phil Bell, Sounds, 5 December 1981

WHEN I humbly volunteered to undertake this venture, I knew full well what a pasting I'd be letting myself in for. Pitting my feeble opinion ...

AC/DC: For Those About To Rock We Salute You (Atlantic SD 11111)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1981

ROCK'S A-B-C'S FROM AC/DC ...

AC/DC: Death Pooches Lick The Cosmic Milk Bone

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, May 1982

THEY ALL LOOK like they'd benefit from a Jerry Lewis telethon. Seventeen thousand diseased and uncontrollable bodies. ...

AC/DC: NEC, Birmingham

Live Review by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 9 October 1982

CANNON AND BALLS! ...

AC/DC: Flick Of The Switch

Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 3 September 1983

FOR THOSE about to cry "Oh No Not AC/DC", I refute you. I'm really sorry about this, but they've made some fine records and remain ...

AC/DC: Flick Of The Switch (Atlantic)

Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Creem, December 1983

Loose wires/Cause fires/Getting tangled in my desire so/Screw 'em all in/Plug 'em in/Then throw the switch and start all over again. — Young, Young, ...

Angus Young: The Man In Short Pants Is Long On Guitar Chops

Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, March 1984

...but don't ask him what equipment he uses. ...

AC/DC: And Nothing Can Harm Them!

Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1984

ARE THEY SUPER? My God, they're immense. They're gigantic. They're Jabba the Hutt on the Elvis Diet. They're so big that they're invulnerable to criticism ...

AC/DC: Clap, It's AC/DC!

Interview by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984

JUST OCCASIONALLY Robert Wyatt gets elbowed off my turntable in favour of something a little more...lycanthropic. Something to transport me away from the pristine confines ...

AC/DC: Who Dares Wins

Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, 12 July 1986

Meet AC/DC, terror monarch Stephen King's favourite band and the bane of America's moral majority. NEIL PERRY takes his hat off to them ...

AC/DC: Blow Up Your Video (Atlantic)

Review by Amy Linden, Spin, June 1988

FOR THOSE of you who haven't been paying much attention, let me let you in on a little secret: It's okay to like Heavy Metal ...

AC/DC's Angus Young (1990) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages transcripts, October 1990

This is a transcript of Martin's audio interview with Angus. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

AC/DC: The Razors Edge

Review by John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 15 November 1990

SINCE THE HEYDAY of Little Richard, one of the things that teenagers have liked most about rock & roll is that it can provoke parents ...

AC/DC: Phew! Got Away With It, Readers!

Retrospective and Interview by David Sinclair, Q, December 1990

MOST PEOPLE in Britain first heard about AC/DC at about the time of the punk explosion. A bunch of roughneck Aussies with a guitarist dressed ...

AC/DC: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Simon Price, Melody Maker, 4 May 1991

BRILLIANT, brilliant, f***ing brilliant!!! Ignore all those bands you read about in Sidelines: if you don't love AC/DC, you don't like Rock. They're that fundamental, ...

AC/DC: Donington Ain't No Bad Place To Be

Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 17 August 1991

AC/DC headline Donington for a record-breaking third time this weekend. When they do, the song you most want to hear, predicts PAUL ELLIOTT, is the ...

AC/DC, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Queensrÿche, Black Crowes: Monsters of Rock, Castle Donington, Leicestershire

Live Review by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 24 August 1991

METAL FATIGUE ...

AC/DC: AC/DC Live

Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, December 1992

AC/DC's ROLE as rap-music progenitor cannot be overlooked. ...

AC/DC: Ballbreaker (Elektra)

Review by Keith Cameron, Vox, November 1995

Black In The Saddle ...

AC/DC: Bonfire

Review by David Bennun, The Guardian, November 1997

THE LATE '70s and early '80s were bleak years for rock, and most other things besides. One of those moments in history which seem to ...

AC/DC: Bonfire

Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, February 1998

AC/DC's box- set tribute to late vocalist Bon Scott comes in packs of four or five CDs (remastered Back In Black optional). Includes rare and/or ...

Rock's oldest juvenile delinquents greet the 21st century

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, 2000

AC/DC: Stiff Upper Lip (EMI Liberty) ...

AC/DC: Stiff Upper Lip (EMI)


Review by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 3 March 2000

AC/DC MAY OR may not currently be writing the best lyrics in rock. It's hard to tell, since they don't print them on their album ...

AC/DC: NEC Arena, Birmingham

Live Review by Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 30 November 2000

MORE THAN 25 years after they started it, AC/DC are still playing it – the riff. The same sticklebacked three-chord trick has been their passport ...

AC/DC Celebrate Their Quarter Century

Retrospective and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, December 2000

They've got all the essential ingredients: sweat, noise, booze – and choking on vomit. As AC/DC celebrate their quarter century, Sylvie Simmons toasts a band ...

AC/DC: live at Wembley Arena

Live Review by Ian Fortnam, bol.com, 4 December 2000

TIMES CHANGE. ROCK STARS and rock stars go. Thrash gives way to death; gives way to glam; gives way to stoner; gives way to nu. ...

AC/DC: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Paul Elliott, MOJO, February 2001

HOWARD STERN spoke for millions of AC/DC fans when quoting from the band's current album Stiff Upper Lip: "I was born with a stiff! These ...

AC/DC: High Voltage and other reissues

Review by Toby Manning, Record Collector, May 2003

"LET ME PUT my love into you babe", "given the dog a bone", "a full house", "sinking the pink", "she liked it done medium rare". ...

AC/DC: Cash For Questions

Interview by Paul Elliott, Q, September 2003

No topic is off-limits for Angus Young and crew — not Satanism, School Disco, meddling pigeons or elephantine groupies called Rosie. But what about their ...

Overcoming the Cringe: A Potted History of Australian Rock and Pop

Overview by Clinton Walker, Sunday Mail (Australia), 2006

WHEN ROCK 'N' ROLL exploded by that name in the mid-1950s, it wasn't as if there hadn't been any warning. For the some time [sic ...

AC/DC: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Retrospective by Clinton Walker, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 2006

EVERYONE AGREED that Peter Head had chosen his name well. The erstwhile Peter Beagley took his new name around the same time, in the early ...

AC/DC: The Story Of 'You Shook Me All Night Long'

Retrospective by Johnny Black, Blender, October 2007

LESS THAN a year before releasing their first American hit, 'You Shook Me All Night Long', AC/DC came close to throwing in the towel. ...

Guns N' Roses: The Monsters of Rock Return

Comment by Andy Gill, The Independent, 31 October 2008

After 14 years of rumours and false starts, Guns N' Roses are promising to release their new album. There's even a ticking clock on their ...

AC/DC: Verizon Center, Washington DC ****

Live Review by Keith Cameron, Q, February 2009

Their album went Number 1 in 29 countries, so why would the greatest ever Australian band — still performing with a deranged intensity that belies ...

AC/DC: Heavy Metal's Eternal Schoolboys at the O2 Arena

Live Review by 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 ...

George Young should be remembered as the sonic architect of Australian rock music

Obituary by Andrew Stafford, The Guardian, 24 October 2017

The Easybeats guitarist and AC/DC producer wasn't just a star in his own right, but a behind-the-scenes industry giant. ...

The 30 best live concert albums of all time

Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020

LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...

AC/DC: "Malcolm was there in the studio and we all knew it"

Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 14 November 2020

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 ...

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