June 29, 1980, Namur, Belgium: four months after Bon Scott’s death, a terrified Geordie sang his first AC/DC show weeks before Back in Black came out. Fans later carved the spot a monument.
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George Young misremembered Bon as a piper – he’d been the pipe band’s drummer. So Bon bought bagpipes that afternoon for $479 and learned them mid-session. The true story of rock’s greatest bluff.
Born in Kirriemuir, made in Fremantle, immortalised in bronze on top of a Marshall amp – why a Western Australian port town built a statue of AC/DC’s wildest son, and why it works.
Days before playing to 250,000 people at the first Rock in Rio, AC/DC hit Ipanema Beach like ordinary tourists. Inside the January 1985 photo of a band on the verge of the biggest crowd of its life.
She married the broke singer of Fraternity in 1972 and knew Bon Scott better than the myth ever did. The story of Irene Thornton, the Adelaide girl who loved Bon before AC/DC.
From Scotland to Australia, Angus Young built AC/DC’s riff empire with a Gibson SG, savage groove, and a stage persona that still shocks arenas awake.
Before stadiums and schoolboy uniforms, Angus Young was a teenage firebrand in Kantuckee. Here is what we really know about that loud, half-mythical 1972 era.