Must Haves. Music Edition. AC/DC

BACKGROUND HISTORY

Active1970s - 2020s

Formed1973 in Sydney, Australia

Genre

Pop/Rock

Styles

Album Rock

Aussie Rock

Hard Rock

Heavy Metal

Arena Rock

Group Members

Angus Young

Brian Johnson

Malcolm Young

Phil Rudd

Cliff Williams

Bon Scott

Chris Slade

Stevie Young

Mark Evans

Simon Wright

Colin Burgess

Dave Evans

Larry Van Kriedt

Neil Smith

ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS

Rock or bust, back in black, tnt, let there be rock, dirty deeds done dirt, etc

HITS

If you want blood you got it, back in black, thunderstruck, war machine, sin city, shoot to thrill, you shook me all night long, hells bells,eetc

CULTURAL IMPACT

AC/DC`s large power-chord roar have become one of the maximum influential tough rock sounds of the '70s and helped outline the fashion because the years progressed. Founded via way of means of Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, the Aussie band exploded onto the global degree in 1979 with the discharge in their multi-platinum-promoting 6th album, Highway to Hell. The loss of life of charismatic frontman Bon Scott in 1980 threatened to derail the group, however AC/DC powered through. They recruited Geordie vocalist Brian Johnson and unleashed their maximum a hit attempt to date, Back in Black, which has turn out to be the second one best-promoting album in history. The band spawned limitless imitators over the following many years and loved industrial achievement properly into the 2000s, with 2020's Power Up debuting at primary on a couple of charts.

AC/DC had been fashioned in 1973 in Australia via way of means of guitarist Malcolm Young after his preceding band, the Velvet Underground, collapsed (no relation to the seminal American group). With his more youthful brother Angus serving as lead guitarist, the band performed a few gigs round Sydney. Angus became best 18 on the time, and his sister recommended that he put on his faculty uniform on-degree; the appearance have become the band's visible trademark. While nevertheless in Sydney, the authentic lineup providing singer Dave Evans reduce a unmarried called "Can I Sit Next to You," with ex-Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young (Malcolm and Angus' older brother) producing.