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“He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC

The story of AC/DC’s most unlikely famous fan

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“David Coverdale’s had to become a pop singer to get success. There’s your glamour bands and your denim-clad groups. And your denim-clad groups survive”: How AC/DC swam against the 80s hair metal tide and made an underrated gem in Blow Up Your Video

AC/DC’s 1988 album Blow Up Your Video was a tipping point for the hard rock icons – and for guitarist Malcolm Young in particular

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“My friend found me a replica of John Frusciante’s Strat for €28,000. Spending that kind of money is ridiculous. It doesn't do anything for me”: Richard Z. Kruspe on why guitars are like kisses, reverse kill-switches – and the riff that launched Rammstein

Fresh from launching his new RZK-III signature model, the German fire-raiser discusses the Custom Shop guitar that changed his thinking on collecting –and how he manages to live and let live with colleague Paul Landers

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AC/DC - ranked! All 17 studio albums, from worst to best

As the old song goes: "Let there be rock!"

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“We were heartbroken. The world had lost a big talent. But as a band we had lost much more”: The rollercoaster story of AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 50-million selling album that emerged from tragedy

How AC/DC recovered from the death of iconic singer Bon Scott to make the biggest rock album ever

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“Malcolm said, ‘I've got this riff, it's driving me nuts.’ It's three o'clock in the morning and I'm trying to sleep. I said, ‘It sounds fine to me.’ That was Back in Black”: Through 50 years of triumph and tragedy, they remain hard rock's greatest titans

AC/DC's Angus Young traces the lineage of one of rock's greatest bands – from his air-tight six-string chemistry with his brother Malcolm, that time he tried one of Malcolm's guitars, and why he avoided Strats at all costs

Guitar World

An unreleased Tina Turner song has surfaced and it has a connection to AC/DC

Listen to the previously unheard Hot For You Baby, which comes from the 40th anniversary edition of Tina Turner's classic Private Dancer album

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Rock fans furious after developers tear down band members’ childhood home

Company behind the demolition said it was not aware of the historic importance of the building until after it was torn down

The Independent UK

“I want to convey our heartfelt regret”: Angus and Malcolm Young’s childhood home has been demolished – despite being on the National Trust Register of Historic Houses

The property was demolished to make way for a multi-million dollar residential development

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"We are genuinely sorry for this oversight": Angus and Malcolm Young's childhood home demolished despite being on National Trust Register of Historic Houses

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“We once did a gig for deaf kids. They sat at the front of the stage, put their ears to the ground and soaked up the vibration. They loved it!”: An epic interview with Angus and Malcolm Young, the heart and soul of AC/DC

AC/DC played their very first gig on New Year’s Eve 1973 – 51 years ago today

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“Some people think its gloss black top was a response to Gibson’s Les Paul Custom – but that didn’t launch officially until ’54”: The Duo Jet took Gretsch’s ’50s innovation to new heights – and was loved by George Harrison, Jeff Beck and Malcolm Young

As solid-bodied models began taking the guitar world by storm in the early ’50s, Gretsch joined the party with the revolutionary single-cut 6128 Duo Jet and its twangsome DeArmond ‘Dynasonic’ single coils

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"What's the difference between a Lada and a sheep?": Brian Johnson on the worst and best cars he's ever owned

In 2009 AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson joined the ranks of celebrity authors - but forget the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, it was all about cars

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“We were playing in Germany the day Malcolm died. Itdawned on me that he was the reason I’mmaking a living from rockguitar. Ished atear onstage that night”: The Darkness’ Dan Hawkins on why Malcolm Young is one of rock’s most underrated guitarists

The Darkness rhythm man says he put the 10,000 hours in trying to match Malcolm riff for riff, chord for chord, but the unstoppable AC/DC guitarist's style is beyond most mortals

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"Angus Young may be a silver-topped 69-year-old, but he's still the blueprint of what a rock'n'roll guitarist should be": Back on the road with AC/DC

Given events surrounding AC/DC in recent years, anyone could be excused for thinking it was all over for one of rock’s greatest bands. But as long as there's a school uniform...

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“Their first couple of albums, theywere a good band. After that... boring.” AC/DC's late, no-nonsense leader Malcolm Young wasn't impressed by Led Zeppelin

“Most people, when they progress, they progress up their own a**es.” Malcolm Young, AC/DC, 1984

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AC/DC review, Wembley: If this is what it is to be rocked, it sure feels like being drained

Few gigs may be louder, but the songs themselves are virtually inaudible – luckily the band compensate with their Rolodex of major hits

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Chris Slade admits to feeling insulted when AC/DC asked him to stick around as Phil Rudd's understudy

Slade had success as AC/DC drummer on The Razors Edge – but wasn't happy when they brought back hellraiser Rudd

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"The crowd just went off their brains. It was an amazing, fantastic first show": The story of AC/DC's live debut, told by those who were there

On December 31, 1973, the fledgling AC/DC saw in the New Year by playing their very first gig at a bar in Sydney

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“The comeback few expected but everyone wanted”: AC/DC’s Power Up tour – the first review

AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there

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“I made Yngwie play on a really slow blues… He sounds even faster”: Dweezil Zappa reveals plans to finish epic all-star track featuring 40 players, including Brian May, and Eddie Van Halen playing a “greatest hits of all of his best guitar licks”

Zappa has been working on this instrumental piece for over 30 years and it features Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young and more, and two solos from Eddie Van Halen

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Master 6 rhythm guitar styles inspired by AC/DC, Metallica, The Who, Pantera, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden

Develop your pick hand technique with this look at some of rock and metal’s greatest players

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“Those virtuoso guys can do anything. But sometimes it’s more fun to hit one note and see if it can mean as much. Sometimes it can mean even more”: Rich Robinson on earning AC/DC’s approval, losing guitars to a hurricane, and The Black Crowes’ return

The Robinson brothers are back in session as The Black Crowes complete their triumphant comeback. Here, Robinson gives us the guitar story behind the rock ’n’ roll album of the year

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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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“What came off his guitar, you still don’t even know to this day what the hell he was doing”: these are the 10 greatest guitarists ever, according to The Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson

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