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AC/DC Members:

Angus Young (Lead Guitar)

Angus Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. At school, Angus was an
unenthusiastic student. His only real academic interest was art wich allowed him some freedom of
expression. He gave up school at 15 and went to work for a soft porn magazine called Ribald as a
printer.

But his ambitions laid elsewhere anyway, and for a year prior to leaving school Angus had been
practising guitar almost constantly, jamming around with friends and playing at school dances. In the
beginning, Angus messed around with Malcolm's guitars for years before his mother finally bought
him his own, a cheap little acoustic. By the time he was eleven Angus had flirted with a tutorial
course, but he prefered to learn by himself and most of his musical education was pure trial and
error.

While his older brother Malcolm was hatching plans for his new band, Angus was well on his way
toward establishing a distinctive stage persona. His spasmodic, seemingly out-of-control onstage
body language has always come naturally. Such trademark Angus moves as his patented duckwalk
and his on-the-floor body spasms could be handy attention-getting devices when playing for
drunken, rowdy barroom crowds. Many of these gestures grew out of accidents.

One night Tantrum, the pre-AC/DC band Angus was playing with, was going down really badly.
Angus walked across the stage and tripped over the guitar lead, so he felt a right dick and he kept
running across the floor. He made it look like a death scene, screaming all hell from the guitar. It
was the only clap they got that night. Angus told his brother about it. Malcolm asked him to join the
band he was putting together.

Malcolm Young (Rhythm Guitar)

Malcolm Young was born on January 6, 1953 in Glasgow, Scotland. Malcolm is the sixth child of
the Young Family. He was ten when his family moved from Scotland to settle in Sydney, Australia.
Upon arriving in Australia, Malcolm wasted little time in earning a reputation as a schoolyard
brawler. He left school as soon as he could and found gainful employment. He worked as a machine
maintenance engineer for a bra company.

Malcolm picked up the guitar while he was still at school. He graduated quickly from acoustic to
electric and picked up tips from his older brother George whenever the Easybeats returned from a
tour. The salary from his work allowed Malcolm to buy more professional guitars.

Eventually Malcolm put a few small bands together. During 1971 he joined up with Australia's
Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground went through a number of line-up changes during
their brief career, but were never considered good enough to make any lasting impact.

During 1973 George Young, along with his partner Harry Vanda, were working on an album under
the name of the Marcus Hook Roll Band at Albert Studios. The project had begun in London as a
casual, tongue-in-cheeck diversion but took on a more serious aura after EMI's American division
expressed interest in a full album. In the process, George and Harry recruited Malcolm and Angus
as supporting players. That was the first thing Malcolm and Angus did before AC/DC.

The Marcus Hook Roll Band project had had a profound effect on Malcolm, who decided that the
standard process of overdubbing tracks one by one went against his idea of how rock'n'roll ought to
be made. He decided that his band wouldn't do that.

When the Velvet Underground fell apart, Malcolm determined to put together a new outfit. At first

this was to be a one-guitar band, with a keyboard player being drafted to fill out the sound.
But a sudden change of heart on Malcolm's part led to  his decision to get in a second guitarist to play alongside with him.

He turned to his brother Angus. Malcolm's new band called AC/DC rehearsed
energically, playing cover versions. The band's first gig took place in the Chequers Club in Sydney
on December 31, 1973.

Brian Johnson (Vocals)

Brian Johnson was born on October 5, 1947 in Newcastle Upon Tyne (Northumberland), England.
As a kid Brian performed Gang Shows with the Scouts, appeared in a TV play and even joined the
local church choir. But he was quickly bitten by the rock'n'roll demon. In February 1972 he joined
the Newcastle band USA, also featuring guitarist Vic Malcolm, bassist Tom Hill and drummer Brian
Gibson. They changed their name to the far more appropriate Geordie a few months later. The
band's first single, 'Don't Do That', was issued towards the end of the year through EMI, peaking at
No. 32 in the British charts. This was rapidly followed a few months later by their biggest hit in the
form of 'All Because Of You', which reached No. 6 in the charts, and another Top 20 hit with 'Can
You Do It'.

As the glam era thrived so did Geordie, although after 'Electric Lady' slid out of the charts, only
reaching No. 32 in August 1973, the band began to go out of fashion. Geordie continued to play the
club circuit and released three albums during the Seventies as well as one compilation album,
'Master Of Rock' in 1974. Sadly, none of their albums managed to persuade anyone to take the
band seriously in the long-term. Shortly after the release of 'Save The World' in 1976, Geordie
called it quits.

Brian actually gave up all hopes of making it in the music business at this point. But by the beginning
of 1980, he started to think about having another crack at the entertainment world. He persuaded
his former colleagues to reform Geordie. When AC/DC approached Brian, Geordie had just signed
a deal with Red Bus Records in London, initially for a single. Geordie elected to carry on when
Brian left, recruiting one Terry Schlesser as his replacement.

Phil Rudd (Drums)

Phil Rudd was born on May 19, 1954 in Melbourne, Australia. Phil made his name with the
Colored Balls, a skinhead band formed by guitarist Lobby Lloyd and singer Angry Anderson (who
went on to form Rose Tatoo), which terrorised the club circuit during the early Seventies with a
ferocious brand of yob-rock.

Two singles ('Liberate Rock' and 'Mess Of Blues') were the only recognised fruits of Phil Rudd's
time with the Colored Balls who, in 1974, changed their name to Buster Brown and went on to
record one album ('Something To Say') for the indie Mushroom Records later the same year. But
by the beginning of 1975 Phil had had enough, and hardly hesitated when AC/DC offered him the
gig.

In 1983, at the end of the recording sessions of 'Flick Of The Switch', there were personal
difficulties between Phil and Malcolm Young. Their relationship progressively deteriorated, to the
point where a physical confrontation eventually took place. Two hours later Phil was out, flying
home. Phil elected to retire to New Zealand where he bought a helicopter business and gave up
professional music completely.

In 1994, when AC/DC were playing in New Zealand, Malcolm and Angus Young gave Phil a call.
They hadn't seen him in about ten years. Then, around May 1994, they asked Phil to come and jam
with them. He was back in the band.

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Last Update: november 21, 1998.