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Watch remastered HD footage of Bon Scott-fronted AC/DC performing Jailbreak live in London in 1976

AC/DC have released remastered high-definition video of their 1976 performance of Jailbreak in London

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“He’s like, ‘Ed, I got an idea... first song, AC/DC Highway to Hell, you take a verse, I take a verse....’: It's now been 10 years since Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder rocked Australia with their covers of a Bon Scott-era AC/DC classic

Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello playing Highway to Hell in Melbourne and Brisbane in 2014 was a good time for everyone involved

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“I fell in love with Highway To Hell when I heard it in my dad’s pick-up truck. Bon Scott had a cheek to him”: pop superstar Rick Astley on his love of AC/DC, Slipknot, Yes and Foo Fighters

From AC/DC’s Highway To Hell to Foo Fighters’ Everlong, these are the song Rick Astley is never gonna give up

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"I went out expecting to see Kiss at Hammersmith Odeon and instead spent the evening in a pub with Bon Scott and Angus Young": An AC/DC story

When AC/DC headed off on their Lock Up Your Daughters Tour in the summer of 1976, a future Classic Rock writer was there every step of the way

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A biopic about Bon Scott's early life is in the works: Boy Swallows Universe actor Lee Tiger Halley set to star

The Kid From Harvest Road is currently in development in Australia, described as "a love letter to Fremantle and Bon Scott"

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"He wanted to stay up and party. Bon just wanted to keep the party going": What really happened on the night Bon Scott died?

Mystery surrounds Bon Scott's death to this day: Classic Rock looks back at Bon’s last hours, the world he moved in and the disappearance of the last man to see him alive

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AC/DC 2024 world tour: dates, venues, and how to get tickets

It will be the Australian rock legends’ first tour in Europe for eight years — and they are coming to London

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"He looked as fit as a butcher's dog": Watch Bon Scott's surreal final UK appearance with AC/DC

Just 12 days before his death, Bon Scott and AC/DC performed Touch Too Much for an audience of teenage pop fans

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"I'm the flash in the middle": All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

Scott’s AC/DC legacy amounts to six years, six studio albums and 57 tracks. Here we rank every one that the great man recorded with the band, from high-voltage classics to obscure B-sides and everlasting anthems

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In the early 80s Australia's biggest and most dangerous band, The Angels, had the world at their feet. But their meteoric rise and tragic fall is a tale littered with chaos, controversy and death

Discovered by AC/DC, The Angels were cited as an influence by acts as diverse as Guns N’ Roses, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Great White

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"You’ll find out over the next couple of years what it means when Beartooth headline": Caleb Shomo on idolising David Draiman, duetting with Papa Roach and whether he'd reunite with Attack Attack!

Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo answers your questions on the most rock'n'roll song of all time, what it was like meeting David Draiman and Papa Roach and whether Beartooth are ready to headline festivals

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"A baptism of fire, fuelled by youthful naivety, stubbornness and folly:" What it was like to witness AC/DC in Australia in 1975... as a 10-year-old

A first-hand account of an early AC/DC show at the Bondi Lifesaver Club in Sydney, Australia

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Colin Burgess death: AC/DC drummer dies as band pays emotional tribute

No cause of death was disclosed at the time of writing

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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd selling off rare memorabilia in honour of friend who is dying of cancer

Phil Rudd is selling equipment and memorabilia from throughout AC/DC's long career

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It was written for nuclear disarmament – but today You’re The Voice is the perfect song for the 'yes' campaign

The serendipity of the pairing between John Farnham’s 1986 hit single You’re the Voice and the Voice to Parliament referendum is obvious, but it goes well beyond the fact the two share the key word “voice”.

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"That kind of bare-bones grit they had in the early days was replaced with this driving sonic overload": Why I ❤️ AC/DC's Back In Black, by Kiss's Paul Stanley

Kiss legend Paul Stanley has a theory about what makes great bands great

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Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on the genius of AC/DC’s Bon Scott: “My house burnt down the same day as Bon died. I cared more about Bon than the building”

Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on jamming with AC/DC, the majesty of Highway To Hell and the ‘pirate’ genius of Bon Scott

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AC/DC: High Voltage - Album Of The Week Club review

High Voltage was the album that introduced AC/DC to the world beyond Australia, but it was not met with universal acclaim, as readers of Rolling Stone will attest

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"This guy Bon Scott sounds like he’s got peanut butter stuck to the roof of his mouth!": Megadeth's Dave Mustaine on how AC/DC changed his life

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine on how Let There Be Rock – and a girl called Cindy – blew his mind

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“It was an apex moment in the history of live rock’n’roll”: Tom Morello on the night that he teamed up with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder to perform an AC/DC cover

The trio got together to perform Highway To Hell in Melbourne in 2014, and the Rage Against The Machine was the man who made it happen

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“Bon Scott was a bit of a gangster, and that stuff is very linked with rock music”: Saxon’s Biff Byford on how AC/DC changed his life

The Saxon singer says AC/DC’s debut altered his own band’s DNA and set them on the path to stardom

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Wolfgang Van Halen: 11 albums that changed my life

Mammoth WVH mainmain Wolfgang Van Halen picks 11 albums that have shaped his path so far, from prog metal to Van Halen themselves

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All 57 Bon Scott AC/DC songs ranked in order of greatness

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"We’ve been a rock band, we’ve been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic saga of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

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Bon Scott's pre-AC/DC bandmate remembers their wild times: “We nicknamed him Road-Test Ronnie. He tried it all!”

AC/DC's former frontman Bon Scott was also, apparently, a talented marriage counsellor

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