As AC/DC begins their 2025 tour, here’s how it all began 50 years ago.
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Linkin Park are by no means the first band to enter a second phase after the loss of their lead singer. Here are three other notable examples.
Released in 1980, AC/DC’s Back in Black established a sound and a way bands could be powerful brands that would reverberate through rock for years to come.
An AC/DC-loving biologist tests the band’s 1980 assertion that “rock ‘n’ roll ain’t noise pollution.” Turns out it can be – and the negative effects of noise can ripple through an ecosystem.
As guitarist in Australia’s most successful band, Young provided the driving rhythm that underpinned AC/DC’s heavy rock sound.
By the time you read this, AC/DC may have hung up their guitars and school uniforms for the last time. Or they may have announced a new album, to be supported by a sell-out world tour. Such has been the…
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