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Book Coming September to AC/DC

AC/DC rock band will be getting their legacy on print come early this September. By journalist Jake Brown the book was put together who has had access to exclusive interviews and information from engineers, producers and everyone else who had a hand in the recording of some of rock musics most righteous, heavy and memorable jams. AC/DC themselves also great never before announced information of these boys. The book will be entitled AC/DC In The Studio: The Stories Behind Every Album and according to Ultimate Guitar News as well as a press release is fit to be:"the definitive account of the making of the greatest hard rock anthems of all time," The book is due out via John Blake Publishing on September 5th and covers the behind the studio accounts and stories behind every album in the AC/DC discography from High Voltage to Black Ice.

Surprise hit AC/DC

AUSTRALIAN fast bowler Doug Bollinger was bemused by the revelation that England's batsmen were being blasted with AC/DC tunes to force them to focus harder on the bowling in the practice nets at their indoor cricket centre.
The Ashes tour to help prepare, at the indoor center the temperature is increased quite a few uncomfortable degrees to simulate Australia's summer conditions. England have also imported from the US a high tech batting machine that replicates any bowler's action.
But their choice of music surprised Bollinger most of all.

''I don't understand it,'' he said with a hint of a grin. ''I don't like AC/DC, so I won't be singing any of their songs (to the English).''
The paceman described his current tour of England - which resulted in a one-day series loss to England and a drawn Test series with Pakistan - as a learning curve. He said the biggest lesson was to expect Ashes mania. Also, competition for a spot in the attack would be fierce.
''We tried to concentrate on the series, but it was hard to escape the Ashes because everyone was hyping it up over there,'' he said. ''I'm focusing on the Indian series to ensure I get a game in the Ashes. Competition is tough - we have so many good bowlers. Ryan Harris is coming back (from injury). Peter Siddle is as well.
''Everyone has to be on top of their game, and that's good because it means we'll all have to work harder.''

Classic Albums To AC/DC 'Back In Black'

Back in 1979 a little known, Gateshead born singer called Brian Johnson was performing with his band Geordie while suffering from appendicitis. Rolling around on the floor in agony and screaming before being wheeled off stage, the gig was watched by enthralled AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott who thought it was part of the show. At the time, AC/DC were riding high on the back of ‘Highway To Hell’, their first album to make an impact in America, and finally, after five years it seemed the band were on the verge of major commercial breakthrough. But less than a year later, Scott was found dead in a car after choking on his own vomit on a night out in London. Soon after his death, AC/DC hired Johnson as their new singer.
It’s debatable how many bands could lose their singer and return with not only their best record to date, but a record that would come to define the very spirit of rock ‘n’ roll itself, that would become a benchmark for other bands to aspire to aim for, but never better. ‘Back In Black’ is of course this album, and having sold over forty five million copies worldwide, it’s the second best selling album of all time, second only to Jacko’s ‘Thriller’.
A tribute to their late singer, despite being born out of grief, ‘Back In Black’ explodes in a testosterone fuelled, strutting slab of sex, booze and fast cars. A raucous celebration of hedonistic excess, it’s ten songs of pure escapism, a middle finger to the mundane existence of everyday life.
In comparison to Scott’s sleazy, bad boy growl, Johnson shrieks as though someone’s just stabbed him in the eye with a fork, while the Young brothers provide the frenzied solos and guitar riffs that spiral around him at an alarming rate. Sure, a lot of the songs sound the same and, despite being their best album, the prowling riff for ‘Shake A Leg’ or ‘Let Me Put My Love Into You’ could herald the arrival of myriad AC/DC numbers. Progression aint one of the band’s strong points, but hey, why mess with perfection?
Of course, along with ‘Highway To Hell’, the raunch of ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’, anthemic air punching of ‘Hells Bells’ and the unstoppable, instantly recognisable riff of ‘Back In Black’, have become AC/DC signature songs - as synonymous with the band as Angus Young’s school uniform, duckwalking and perpetually raised arm.
But it’s ‘Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution’ that always caught this writer’s ear. The whole anthem sums up the swaggering, stomp of AC/DC’s pleasure seeking attitude. And as Johnson screeches “Forget about the past / It’ll always be with us / It’s never gonna die”, it’s clear just how fitting a tribute for rock’s wild man, Bon Scott, ‘Back In Black’ was and still is the biggest sex-soiled party that rock ever threw.
Words by Dannii Leivers
AC/DC - ‘Back in Black’

Released: 25th July 1980

Producer: Mutt Lange

MUSICIANS

Brian Johnson - lead vocals

Angus Young - lead guitar

Malcolm Young - rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Cliff Williams - bass guitar, backing vocals

Phil Rudd - drums, percussion

TRACKLIST

1. ‘Hells Bells’

2. ‘Shoot To Thrill’

3. ‘What Do You Do For Money Honey’

4. ‘Given The Dog A Bone’

5. ‘Let Me Put My Love Into You’

6. ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’

7. ‘Have A Drink On Me’

8. ‘Shake A Leg’

9. ‘Back In Black’

10. ‘Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution’

1980: In The News

- John Lennon is shot dead by Mark Chapman outside his flat in New York.

- Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States.

- Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham dies of alcohol poisoning.
1980: The Albums

-The Birthday Party - ‘The Birthday Party’

-Talking Heads - ‘Remain In Light’

-Iron Maiden - ‘Iron Maiden’

The AC/DC Burger

Ever been daydreaming and wondered what would constitute the ingerdients to an AC/DC themed hamburger? Well wonder no more as you can find the answer and an instructional video (complete with Mutiny Within’s cover of Highway To Hell as recorded particularly for us) inside!
INGREDIENTS
* 1 LB Black Angus ground beef

* 1/2 tsp of Thyme

* 1/2 tsp of Garlic

* 1/2 tsp Oregano

* 1/2 tsp Red Pepper Flakes

* A Whole Lotta Rosemary!!

* Slices of Colby and Pepper Jack Cheese

* 1 package of soft potato rolls

* 2 TSBP Soft Butter

* 1/2 tsp Jalapeno Oil

* 1 half pint of Australian beer for Bon Scott!!

At Donington AC/DC prove rock's not dead with a mighty show

AC/DC playing at Download after many years of rumours, AC/DC finally turned those rumours into reality and signed on the dotted line for a headline slot at Download Festival 2010. It is clear that a band as legendary as this don't actually need to play festivals as I'm sure they could sell out venues of this size just on their own. So being AC/DC part of their stipulation for playing was that they would be allowed to bring their own stage and set up.

Once in the main arena you could look the regular Download main stage then attached to that was another stage which was just as tall and wide as the main stage but this had two huge inflatable schoolboy red caps with horns protruding from the top of either side of the stage. These schoolboy caps even had a big letter 'A' emblazoned on them just in case there might be some misunderstanding about which stage was which. The AC/DC stage had a huge runway stretching into the middle of the audience. AC/DC opened their set with some video footage of at rain on the verge of crashing, when the train crashed on the video monitors, a real life sized model of the front of a train crashed through the back of the stage and that lead nicely into the opening track 'Rock N Roll Train'. AC/DC explained that they had come to party, and sure enough by the time they had reached the third song 'Back In Black' it was clear that the band had come to prove a point that rock music is far from dead.
As you would expect AC/DC did all of their trademark stage antics, with Angus doing his famous duck walk down the runway and Brian Johnson swinging from a huge bell for 'Hells Bells' and an inflatable 50 foot Rosie tapped along to the drum beat during 'Whole Lotta Rosie'. And of course for the finale canons were rolled out to fire whilst the dying notes of 'Those About To Rock (We Salute You)'. My personal highlight was seeing AC/DC perform 'Thunderstruck' with nearly one hundred thousand people singing along with them, it was one of those rare Donington memories that I will always treasure. So after 7 years of rumours, I can thankfully say it was worth the wait, rock bands don't get much better than this and it will be a very long time before AC/DC play Download Festival again, if they ever do play it again.

Thrill download AC/DC

FOURTH headlining AC/DC have made a record appearance at the Donington extravaganza.
Rockers the ancient have changed their live routine very little since they first made top billing in 1981.
But now when ANGUS YOUNG does his on stage striptease and moons the crowd, he leaves his boxer shorts at full-mast, perhaps because his bum has become wrinkly and he doesn't want anyone to see.

The same guitar solos he plays- note for note - that he did a generation ago.
AC/DC still bash a giant bell for Hells Bells, still unleash roaring pyrotechnics for Highway to Hell, and still inflate a giant doll of a fat Tasmanian hooker for Whole Lotta Rosie. The songs, for the most part, remain the same and so does the script.
But the 100,000 capacity crowd adored it and AC/DC - who hold the record for headline appearances jointly with IRON MAIDEN - have discovered a new generation of fist-punching fans.
Why change the formula when you sell more albums than U2?
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE followed AC/DC's Friday night show with top spot on Saturday.
The marxist metallers - vindicated by bank collapses and corporate scandals - closed their set with their Christmas number one Killing In The Name.
In song they were joined by 100,000 denim n' leather clad rockers who roared the impressive "you I won't do what you tell me" outro.