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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 ...
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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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.
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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: Is Britain Ready For The Human Kangaroo?
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 16 October 1976
Yes, it's AC/DC, hoping to make progress in leaps and bounds... (groan) ...
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: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 20 November 1976
Just acting satchelly ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
Live Review by J. Kordosh, Creem, 1982
AC/DC: Australian Ack-Ack Alive & Onstage ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
Transcript of audio 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Live Review by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 24 August 1991
METAL FATIGUE ...
Review by Chuck Eddy, Spin, December 1992
AC/DC's ROLE as rap-music progenitor cannot be overlooked. ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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". ...
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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