Angus Young was born on March 31th, 1955, in Glasgow, Scotland. With his brother, Malcolm, he formed a band(1973), which was to become one of the world's greatest hard-rock bands. The band was named AC/DC by their sister(rumour tells it had something to do with a vacuum cleaner). Their sister also suggested sometime later that Angus shoul be wearing a school uniform at stage, which came bands unofficial trademark.

The band performed couple gigs around Sydney, cutting a single called "Can I Sit Next to you" in original lineup(singer Dave Evans, drummer Larry Van Knedt and bassist Colin Burgess along with Young brothers). Then Young brothers and Evans moved to Melbourne and Mark Evans started to play bass and Phil Rudd drums. Later their chauffeur Bon Scott became singer, when Dave Evans refused to go on stage.

Bon Scott had been a drummer for the Australian pop bands Fraternity and the Valentines.

He previously had had several convictions on minor criminal offenses and because of that he had been rejected by the Australian Army. That helped to build AC/DC:s image as a brutal and insurgent group.

They released High Voltage(1974) and TNT (1975) albums in Australia with producers George Young and Harry Vanda. These albums brought them to attention of Atlantic, and after signing a deal they moved to London. Bassist Mark Evans was also replaced with Cliff Williams.

Next albums Let There Be Rock(1977) and Powerage(1978) helped in growing their polarity in UK and their following album, Highway to

Hell(1979) was a chart-success and band's first million-seller.

Then a tragedy hit the band: Bon Scott died by being suffocated in his own vomit. But before his death he had pointed the group's next to come singer by describing Brian Johnson as the best sounding singer he had ever heard, when Brian was still performing in a band called Geordie.

1980 Brian started singing and AC/DC made their best selling record ever: Back in Black, which sold over ten million copies in US only. After that composition of AC/DC was about to change again: Phil Rudd made advances to Malcolm's wife and was forced to leave.

Also the next album For Those About To Rock(1981) was a huge success topping the American charts for three weeks. But then they started going downhill with the album Flick Of The Switch(1983), until with The Razors Edge they were on the sharpest top again.

Phil Rudd came back to the band, and with their next album BallBreaker (1995) they gained maybe their most positive reviews since the start of band's career. It was also another million seller worldwide.

The latest album Stiff Upper Lip, brought their music nearer to Rhythm and Blues, which is maybe caused by Angus being strongly influenced by the blues("That's the music I play first when I get at home", he says). In my opinion, Stiff Upper Lip isn't a bad album: It hasn't got very big hits, but it tends to be that kind of music which keeps you listening it again and again.

Don't miss their World Tour!

Realaudio examples of Angus Young's guitarplaying

Aggressive solo
in Sin City

Creepy intro in
Night Prowler

High Voltage

1976

Let There Be Rock

1977

If You Want Blood You've Got It

1978

Powerage

1978

Highway To Hell

1979

Back In Black

1980

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

1981

For Those About To Rock

1981

Flick Of The Switch

1983

'74 Jailbreak

1984

Fly On The Wall

1985

Who Made Who

1986

Blow Up Your Video

1988

Razors Edge

1990

Live

1992

Live-Special Collector's Edition

1992

Ballbreaker

1995

Bonfire

1997

Stiff Upper Lip

2000