September 23, 2021 • 34 mins
Hear the story behind Angus Young's schoolboy uniform and how AC/DC managed to take their raucous act out of Australia to become a worldwide phenomenon. In emotional interviews, the rockers talk about the death of former frontman Bon Scott and how -- in a twist of fate -- their first album without him would be one of the top 10 best selling in history. Despite enduring attacks by critics and censors, being linked to serial killer Richard Ramirez, and personal addictions, AC/DC just keeps on rocking.
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They've been called the thunder from down Under. A C
d c's electrifying brand of hard rock is as much
a trademark as their guitar players. Schoolboy uniform brothers Angus
and Malcolm Young found a soul brother in Bond Scott,
a pint sized wild man with an outsized voice. With
Bond upfront, A C d C rode to rock stardom
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on a high voltage highway to hell. The van reeled
in the wake of their singer's sudden death. Devastated but determined,
A c d C buried and then replaced a legend.
A c d c's musical tribute to their fallen front
Man became one of the best selling albums of all time.
But the loss of Bond Scott would not be the
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band's only danced with death, as they found themselves linked
to a serial killer. Then a packed concert led to
a crushing tragedy, and Malcolm was following in Bond's fatal footstep.
But after fifty years of heartbreak and headbanging, A C
d C continue to rock now the death haunted destiny
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of hard rocks, most enduring band of survivors. A C
d C behind the music In nine nine, lightning finally
struck A c d C. After six years of throwing
out sparks, the band's hard charging, high decibel rock and
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roll finally exploded into the mainstream. They weren't glitter rockers,
they weren't heavy metal their schoolboy dragged aside. A c
d C were in a class by themselves, with a
sound all their own on stage and off. The band's
rough and rowdy lead singer Bond Scott was the embodiment
of A c d c's power and passion formers becoming
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a real here are very quickly amongst the tougher guys
that will wanted bombs, drink the wildlife, you know. M Then,
in five years after he energized the band, Bond Scott
was found dead. Bon Scott died drinking. His death nearly
killed the band. I think we'll ever get out of
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that one. You know, it's so hard to believe that
the next day didn't not there. He had been part
of their lives for a long time. That was a
bit numb, That was really a bit non really fun
whispond It was always the same and never expecting a Dumpton.
It's quite a shock. We wanted to continue to band,
but we just didn't have the will to its hid
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For A c d C. The death of Bond Scott
was more than the loss of a band mate. It
was a death in the family, and from the beginning
A c d C was all about family. In en
sixty three, Malcolm and Angus Young's unemployed father moved his
family from their native Scotland to Australia. Ten year old
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Malcolm in eight year old Angus were a pair of
immigrant kids looking to fit in. I had to learn
how they talked. And because Australia has got a bit
mix of American and a bit you know, the old
world English. The youngest of eight children, Angus and Malcolm
remember a childhood with little money but a wealth of music.
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It was just like Cameron and Tarade Tillis. It was
all part of it, you know. It was the norm.
You know, we thought everyone quick why back. Every few
weeks would be a party for one reason or another.
There was an old piano that we had. Somebody would
get on that and they would sing all the old
rock songs. Malcolm and Angus grew wild about rock and roll,
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especially when they're older brother, George formed his own band,
The Easy Beats, became a big hit down on In
the spring of sixty seven, The Easy Beats scored a
hit in America. Friday on My Mind went to number
sixteen on the U S Singles charts. Angus and Malcolm
were inspired by their big brothers rise to start them
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My family just a rise in Australia. Penniless in six
months wiety, he got TV cameras. Outside the doors, you
got famous brother in the famous band. Eager to follow
in their brother's footsteps, Malcolm and Angus quit school and
joined separate bands. But in nine seventy three, twenty year
old Malcolm suggested to eighteen year old Angus that they
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joined forces. That's all, well, why not better than work?
We told our parents were both in the same vines
they are. I'll give you a week to survive because
we fought all the time. But when big brother George
came home from a concert tour, he was impressed by
what he heard. All of a sudden, the Kid Brothers
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book still a kid of problems, but oh my God,
and knew how to play. Angus and Malcolm's band need
did a need to match their high powered sound. Her
Sister Margaret's sewing machine triggered a flash of inspiration while
the machine that had a easy on the battle and
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we would toss around names for weeks, and she just
said it one night and everyone went, that's that's good.
The name stuck, as did another gimmick courtesy of Sister
Margaret's sewing machine. She said to Ngers, you know he's
still more like a schoolboy. You know, I'm no, we
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have a schoolboy here. I think she said it jokingly.
The next thing, she was stitching our school since far,
there's a fun thing, you know, I said, I you
can go as a schoolboy, then you can graduate and
come back it in the jeans. George, my older brother,
he used to try and bopping me up and he
said he'll be rich very quick. And of course, you know,
at first I believed him, so I thought a better
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in my keep, you know. In four brother Jeorge Rige
and fellow Easy Beach band member Harry Banda, we're producing
records for a small Australian league. They decided to record
a C D C. There was no sort of do
they have it, don't have? It was obvious that they
had something a C D C's first single was released
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in July of The record was a regional hit and
led to a small local tour. The Brothers Young weren't
happy with their lead singer Dave Evans. You know he
got on with his Night Captain maybe even cases wait
is not high. Malcolm and Angus were looking for a
new front man when in the summer of seventy four,
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their future drove up in the person of Ronald bond Scott.
He was kind of win. He pulled up in his
old beat up fifty sky you know you can barely see,
just sort of sort of maniac hid and his you know,
this crazy guy come and lying down their way and
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like the Young Brothers, bond Scott was another Scottish immigrant
raised in Australia. When we met him for the first time,
it was out the nine him forever, the bond with us, guys,
you always behind a brother. Bonn was a headstrong, wild child,
found and determined to be a rock star. All he
wanted to do is be the singer in a vine.
You couldn't stop him. Once he made up his mind
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that was what he wanted to do, and he just
did it. Bond dreamed of fame, but found trouble and staff.
By four, he had already served jail time for assaulting
a cop and had recently survived a near field motorcycle crash.
Bonne had already burned out in local bands like the
Valentines and Fraternity. To Malcolm and Angus, Bond looked and
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sounded like a perfect fit for a c d C.
We need bonk sing rock and roll. And from that
point we kept Pastor and him. You know, we didn't
like to come and sing. We just said, do you
want to draw? Without even fine with the guy. That's
how confident we will. It's uh. He was gonna work
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with it. Angus and Malcolm had no doubts about hiring
Bond Scott to front a c d C. Two weeks later,
we show up and we got George. You've got a
new singer, and you go what big brother? George felt
his little brothers had lost their minds and bonnet and
a kneeling with a shot jaw. I think hanging over
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was about Disney lost a couple of teeth rolling tell
Us does he looked like he'd been around the block
come all than at the time, George was like, there's
your mind? No doubt. He says, that's reshaped the whole thing.
You're a real rock and roll back coming up. A
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c d C invades London and later death comes called
when behind the music continued m By seventy four, twenty
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one year old Malcolm Young and his nineteen year old
brother Anchors had formed a band and found a frontman.
Twenty eight year old Bond Scott was a perfect fit
for a c d C. A hard rocking, hard living dynamo.
His first appearance with the band was an oleman of
hell raising to come the first gig. You know, he's
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got a bottler urban and that's he just he just
juices at all, you know, and then he's got and
his drugs and everything coming in. I said to bath
for I said, it'll be lucky if he can walk
lat alone, sing and bon Scott's behavior may have been shocking,
but his performance was electric and we heard the voice
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properly in that God's got some voice. He can scream
a great malady, He's got great fail e. C d
C had found their voice. They went into the studio
to record their debut album, and in January of the
band took their high volt of Jack across the Australian
club circuit. They were the Aussie blows idea of a
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good time. It was just hot and down and fast
and mean, rib crunching, skull crushing, sort of blistering rock
and roll. Then you know they weren't going to sleep
in a ballad on you. Having conquered Sydney's music scene,
a C d C relocated to Melbourne and retooled the
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group's line up. Bon Scott's voice had raised the band
to another level, but there was room for improvement. The
first High Waters album had been released, but I was
still looking to sort of secure the permanent band members.
In early seventy five, drummer Phil Rudd joined the band.
In the Debauchery, we were living in this house for
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six months, still the best days of our lives. There
was more action going on there. They never since tomorrow
weld cup and drank again and we just continued on
like that a long time. The party continued. That spring,
n C d c's cover of Baby Please Don't Go
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went top ten and became their first nationwide hit. That April,
the band made a notorious appearance on Australian television as
Bond gave new meaning to the phrase dress for success.
I'll never forget it on countdown bund dressed and drag
You know there was unheard of that then Bonds Drag
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Acts served a further A C d C's raucous reputation,
and by the summer of seventy five they had a
gold record and a growing fan base in Australia. I
see had the young audience, violent fame adoring this spad
but as A C d C second but went to
number two in Australia. The band had no intention of
remaining local heroes. In early seventy six, they scored a
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deal with Atlantic Records to release their music internationally. That spring,
A C d C boarded a plane to London, looking
to conquer the world. I think it was inevitable that
A C. We're gonna outgrow Australia. There were there was
a whole world waiting for them. Their fast and furious
style was a hit in London's burgeoning punk scene, and
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A C d C was soon headed cross country to
rock the rest of Great Britain. Their reputation as the
rude and rowdy band from Australia preceded them. I think
they thought it was some sort of mild stripper. At
some point, I think I played one not in my
cane noon. I didn't know what they arrest people for that.
I didn't know. A C d C came to be
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considered less a band than a band of outlaw. On stage,
A C d C did everything they could too shock.
Off stage, they got serious about their music, working with
Angus and Malcolm's older brother George, who produced their next album,
Let there Be Rock, Me and Mountain said, when we
really want to like guitars in pink guitars. Released in
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the summer of seventy seven, Let there Be Rock blasted
onto the US charts. A C d C were on
the verge of becoming an international hard rock phenomenon. In
January of nineteen seventy nine, A C d C began
work on an album called Highway to Hell, a title
the record company hated from the start. Phrase with that title,
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and they didn't want that title, and I said, hogwash,
and we're calling it Highway now, and that's how it is.
When Highway to Hell hit record stores that summer, it's
title spawned rumors that the wild men of A C
d C were devil worshipers. But to A C d C.
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Highway to Hell was a tribute to the hard life
of a touring rock and roll band. If you could
have been on the road with us for those years
up to that point, you were are not exactly what
we were talking about. After six hard years on the
road and in the studio, A C d C's GrITT
and determination, we're finally paying off Bond Scott was enjoying
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the high times. Only for Bond the high times were
even higher. And we got back to the hotel us
at Old Bonging and thrain them morning you know, crash,
but now just one more drink and wait Whyecott? The
morning on Whycoup and getting up back onto East drink.
Where were we? Where they were was on the rise.
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Highway to Hell raced up the billboard charts and hit
the top twenty as the seventies came to a close.
As the eighties began, A C d C look forward
to further rock and roll glory. After seven years and
thousands of gigs, from the plubs of Australia to the
stadiums of the world, A C d C rode Highway
to Hell to international success in the summer of nineteen
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seventy odd as the year drew to a close. The
decade ahead promised more gold records and good fortune, but
the band's exhausting workload and equally intense appetite for drugs
and alcohol we're taking their inevitable toll. Frontman Bond Scott
led the partying as well. No one could stop Bonds
Wild Waves, not even his beloved mother. You didn't tell
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her on what to do. I never went too far.
I just said I didn't like him drinking. But to
get to that staga, don't listen to you. Under pressure
to record a follow up to Highway to Hell, a
C d C returned to London in January. Of night,
Malcolm and Angus Young invited Bond to the studio, eager
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to play him the new music for their next album,
They will Fantasty's looking up yourself. Yeah, it's taste little
fixed and he said, you know, we're just about ready
for you, pont So mightbe next week sometime, you know.
Of course I never had never happened. You know, Bond
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would never put lyrics to the music Malcolm and Angus
had written. On Tuesday night, February, Bond Scott went out
drinking in London with a friend. He went out just
for a drink, a relaxation, you know, maybe the clear
the heads, you know, and then he look forward to
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getting into his right and come up with some ideas.
You know. He had it all in front of him
on that cold night. Bond Scott was only thirty three
years old, but his time was running out. After a
night of heavy drinking, Bond ended the evening alone passed
out in a car parked outside his friend's house. In
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the morning, he was found dead from what I still
can gather. He had formed asleep, you know, in a
car and you know, asphyxiated each through the through the
night the position he was sleeping during the night, Bond
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had apparently vomited in his sleep and choked to death.
Angus was the first band member to get the sad news.
I had called the guy was managing us and he
told that it was true that he had died. So
m h Angus called me. I just thought, we stunned.
You can't explain to death and how it affects you.
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You know, everything just is not It's as simple as that.
I wonder, you know, just what do you do Within hours,
everyone in the band knew the awful truth, and the
media were already flashing the news of Bond's death. Malcolm
took it upon himself to notify Bond's family in Australia
before the tabloid reporters got to them first. Someone had
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to tell him, you know, and it better coming from
one of the bye and from a newspaper over the phone. Yeah,
I got shock of my life. But I thought it
was him on the end of the phone and I
just screamed, Yeah, the most difficult thing I've had to do.
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God knows how they felt. I hope I never have
to do anything like that again. The band pulled together
and refused all interviews. While Bond's death was sensationalized in
the tabloid press, especially in Britain, they made it a
bit of a joke almost, you know, and we've never
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forgiven of for that or we were concerned about it
mainly at that song with Bond's parents. They're really nice people.
They don't need a lot of the stories are I
don't know, not don't not very good reading sometimes, you know,
I just had to skip over the bad bits. As
the grim news swirled around them, his friends and band
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meets dealt with the pain of a crushing blow. I mean,
that was Bond's life. I mean, even though he was
this sweet, lovely guy, he did drink a lot, he
did sort of live the rock and roll lifestyle to
its absolute extreme. But she, you know, might have been
drunk before. I mean, you know, I mean, one shouldn't
have died. There was a loss to us of this
incredible character that all of us had embraced and he
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had embraced us. All work on E C d c's
new album was suspended, and Malcolm and Angus flew home
to Australia to lend support to Barns parents and warned
the loss of a man who had become brother to them.
When you're younger, you don't really think that something like
death it's gonna touch you, you know. I'd never really
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had that a tragedy that close, you know, and especially
someone like Bomb. It was just one of those things
where you know, one day somebody is there and and
it's so hard to believe that the next day not fit.
On March one, Bond Scott was buried in Fremant, the
town where he was raised, and you got for the
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emotions of the funeral and everything else. We just really
just dumbfound I just can't believe what's really happened. To know,
I think we'll ever get out of that one. We
wanted to continue to buy, but we just didn't have
the will to. Without Bond, the surviving band members believed
A c d C was dead, but Bond's parents encouraged
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them to keep the band alive, that Bond would have
wanted it that way. Let's you know, we've got dead blessing,
you know, so West Colin try to do something. But
after five years with Bond Scott up front, raising hell
and raising the roof, A c d C's bright future
had dim and there was more darkness ahead coming up.
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Music for a band in Mourning and later a serial
killer and Guilt by Association when behind the music continues
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in A c d C. Was reeling from the loss
of their friend and frontman lead singer Bond Scott, but
the band's founding members Angus and Malcolm Young were convinced
that Bond would have wanted A c d C to
carry on, and we all agreed with classrophos and that
would want to say it follows would be bombed. Finding
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a lead singer to replace Bond Scott was a daunting task.
Bond's powerhouse voice and on a bass showmanship had been
central to a c d C success. Their search lad
them to Brian Johnson, and I saw them on television
a program called Rook Goes to College. I was just
transmitted with Angus and Bond and these two guys of
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Front with two the greatest characters I think I've ever seen,
and especially Angus, you know, and I just I was hooked.
Brian auditioned for a band that was feeling mixed emotions
about replacing a friend they had buried only a month earlier.
There would never be another Bomb. It's dry and walked
in one day Front audition. He just felt really comfortable
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with him and it and again he could sing his
balls out. A c DC hired Brian in April of
ninety and got down to the task of making their
first album without Bond Scott. The music of the album
it's titled, and its cover we're all dedicated to Bond's memory.
He wanted it just a simple black cover. We wouldn't
have even done Injustice and words also even you know,
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with the bell and the beginning of the health meals
is our own little tributes. During the emotional sessions for
Back in Black, Ryan Johnson stepped up to the microphone
and into bond scott shoes. I mean by just going
up there and just just crossing my fingers and just
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boating me along as I as high and as hard
as I could, with as much feeling as I could.
I want to impress these guys. As Brian and the
band prepared for the upcoming Back in Black tour, there
was apprehension about how their new lead singer would be
accepted by the fans. Brian was very worried, you know
at the talking me. But we thought, well, you're just
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sanging that, Brian. You just do what you do best.
It was the first time ever I'll be singing some
of Bond's songs. Nerve racking. It was real nerve racking.
Those kids, you know, in the first gig we did,
those fans were there. Good walk, Brian, you know, you
know the space Wishes. There was banners everywhere. That's for
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a shot. The fans were still with a CDC and
now there would be millions more of them released In
the summer of nine teen eighty Back in Black sold
sixteen million copies to become one of the ten best
selling albums in rock and roll history. To come back
that strong with a new vocalist is an absolutely remarkable
feat for them to accomplish. A C d C's musical
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memorial to Bond Scott hit the top five on three continents,
and that fall Back in Black spawned the band's first
top forty single. The album's phenomenal success proved an impossible
act to follow after Black and Black was so huge.
The world was navy for this, you know, for this
follow up, and I just don't think you can do it.
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The stock market that did kind of fogged down sometime,
you know, I mean, But falling album sales were only
the start of a streak of bad luck that would
haunt A C d C throughout the eighties. In the
spring of Night five, A C d C became linked
to the investigation of a murder case in California. Upon
investigating that murder, one of the pieces of evidence that
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was left behind was they had bearing the letters A
C d C on it in an attempt to track
down the infamous killer known as the night Stalker. Homicide
detective Guilt Corea released a picture of the hat to
the press. What the significance was was trying to get
attention through the media to see if anybody knew somebody
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that wore an A C d C had that might
call Jared Pilot Martinez Helvin. The county was held in terror.
They were full of fear. While law enforcement pressed their
manhunt for the mystery man suspected in thirteen brutal murders,
the press built up the serial killer's link to A
C d C. Press assumed an awful lot, and the
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press put a lot more to the significance of the
hat than the homicide investigators. On August thirty one, the
night Stalker was finally arrested. The press reported that Richard Ramirez,
a confessed Satanist, was inspired by A. C d C
Has Children for us. I mean, why are we connected anyway?
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Reporters analyzed the lyrics to the A C d C
song Night Prowler for connections to the night stalker. Class
song not cold Nights. The focus will night Prowler, and
it's that things used to do when you're a kid,
like sneaking girlfriend's bedroom window and their parents. It just
sickens you. You know, sicken as you had to have
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anything to do with that kind of thing. The media
frenzy surrounding the Ramira's case horrified the band. As the
press played up the satanic angle, it was suggested that
A c d C's name stood for Antichrist Devil's children.
It's been called everything since you know A C d C.
The meaning of the wetters, you know, no matter you
tell them the song machine story and everything, and they
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still think, now there's more to this. And I don't
know why they zeroed in on us. I could never
see their connection myself, but the negative press surrounding the
night Stalker case had already done its damage. That same year,
A C d C found themselves at the center of
another controversy when the Parents Music Resource Center, led by
a group of U. S. Senators wives including Tipper Gore,
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placed A c d C at the top of a
list of artists they deemed obscene. You got idiots like
Tipper Gore? Who really is twitter? The attacks on A
C d C continued through the mid eighties, but the
band ignored their critics and focused their energy on a
string of gold records and one concert tour after another.
I's only shut clops to play We're cool. You know,
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we could quite around the world in clubs. Hey what
a life. So we were never you know, felt the
feeding still. The years since Bondscott's death had taken a
toll on Malcolm. His drinking had steadily increased, and in
April of eight eight, he finally bottomed down my drinking
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over talk, you know, my whole thing, and I felt
like cat almost thought the jackal missed high. On stage,
Malcolm tried to keep it together, but offstage he was unraveling.
In the middle of the band's Blow Up Your Video tour,
and Malcolm realized he couldn't take it anymore. Started talk
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with Angus and you said that what you feel I
could at least take a break. I think he was
worried about me, that he'd be disappointing me. But he
turned and he said, look, I'm gonna and I'll have
to stop, you know, because if I continue, he you know,
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he felt he become a casualty, you know, and he
was a big enough man to turn around and say,
you know, I kind of go up with this. So
I was letting people dis make people get worried about me.
I wasn't brain dead, but I I was just physically
and meant me screwed by the by the alcohol. The
brothers recruited their nephew Stevie to play for Malcolm while
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he fought to get sober. In time, with the help
of alcoholics, anonymous, Malcolm was able to put down the
bottle and pick up the guitar. That did it, That
got me right. It's it put me on track. You know.
It wiped your right up. God knows what he went through,
but whatever it was, he fixed. He fixed yourself better
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than ever, you know, huh. A re energized Malcolm joined
the sessions for A. C d C's fourteenth album in
Razor's Edge, would slash its way to the second spot
on the US album charts and sell over three million copies.
It was all back to normal. M So right. That's
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about all I should say about that. It was a detour,
a bad detour I had to take you, and so happened.
I never got it out way again. Malcolm had saved
his own life, but death had not yet finished haunting
A C d C. Well. January eighteenth, a concert in
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Salt Lake City, Utah, turned into a nightmare. Taro Knights,
Tarior Knights Forget as long as I Live. The concert
had barely begune when tragedy struck. Seating was not reserved,
so that night, as the doors opened, thirteen thousand eager
fans rushed forward to claim seats near the front of
the stage. Three fans were trampled to death in the stampede.
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At the time, A C d C didn't know the
full story, and I gotta well, there's one dead, and
I I was it. I just sat him, just tears.
Angus was just just ate himself. I could say he
was well and tried to hold it together as best
you could. The band wanted to stop the show, but
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were advised to play on to avoid further chaos. When
they later learned that three fans had been crushed to death,
they were heartbroken. I think what hurt most is the
next day in the newspapers there same banned cleared on
where kids died about them, and that had a photograph
of me with a spil on new fist. It was
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just journalistic opportunity that just went beyond the bones of decency.
You know. I was just so angry and hurt to
make matters worse, the band faced lawsuits claiming that they
were responsible for the fatality. The lawsuits were coming flying
at us from every angle. Was a feeding friends and
reading well, I think at the end of the day,
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it's your name on the ticket, you know, and it's
your name that they that they see. By spring of
ninety one, the court dismissed A c d C from
a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the father of one
of the three teenagers killed in Salt Lake City, Bray
c d C. The ninet nineties, like the eighties, had
begune on a dismal note. Hopefully their luck would change
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in the decade to come. After a tragic concert in
Salt Lake City in January of n A c d
C was hoping for a fresh start in the new
decade and a chance to put their often painful pass
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behind them. In September of ninety one, Russian President Baris
Yeltson invited A c d C to headline a pre
concert for young Russians who had helped to block a
communist coup. When we arrived in Moscow, getting off the plane,
there's just so many people. They it was like they
just stopped work on the night of September over a
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million Russians rocked with A C d C at a
former Soviet air base. That was a great gig on
him walking on man, just beaten, you know, I mean,
it was just forever forever. The band left Moscow with
a renewed sense of optimism. For A c d C.
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It had been a long, hard highway to hell from
Australia to Russia, seventeen years of heartbreak and hit records.
In the year two thousand, A c d C released
their seventeenth album, Stiff Upper Lift. Even after all that time,
they were still the same hard rockers as when they
formed the band back in ninety three. They went on
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to release the Black Ice album in two thousand eight,
which would turn out to be Malcolm Young's last. With
a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease, he would be unable
to continue on with the band. It was decided that
his nephew Stevie Young, would take his place for their
upcoming Rock or Bust album and tour. Malcolm died in
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at sixty four years old. In the group released Power Up,
a tribute to the late Malcolm Young. After almost fifty years,
Crowd still can't get an enough of a c DCS explosive,
electrifying rock and roll. The legacy of Bond, Scott and
Malcolm Young lives on as the group continues to rock
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They've been called the thunder from down Under. A C
d c's electrifying brand of hard rock is as much
a trademark as their guitar players. Schoolboy uniform brothers Angus
and Malcolm Young found a soul brother in Bond Scott,
a pint sized wild man with an outsized voice. With
Bond upfront, A C d C rode to rock stardom
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on a high voltage highway to hell. The van reeled
in the wake of their singer's sudden death. Devastated but determined,
A c d C buried and then replaced a legend.
A c d c's musical tribute to their fallen front
Man became one of the best selling albums of all time.
But the loss of Bond Scott would not be the
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band's only danced with death, as they found themselves linked
to a serial killer. Then a packed concert led to
a crushing tragedy, and Malcolm was following in Bond's fatal footstep.
But after fifty years of heartbreak and headbanging, A C
d C continue to rock now the death haunted destiny
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of hard rocks, most enduring band of survivors. A C
d C behind the music In nine nine, lightning finally
struck A c d C. After six years of throwing
out sparks, the band's hard charging, high decibel rock and
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roll finally exploded into the mainstream. They weren't glitter rockers,
they weren't heavy metal their schoolboy dragged aside. A c
d C were in a class by themselves, with a
sound all their own on stage and off. The band's
rough and rowdy lead singer Bond Scott was the embodiment
of A c d c's power and passion formers becoming
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a real here are very quickly amongst the tougher guys
that will wanted bombs, drink the wildlife, you know. M Then,
in five years after he energized the band, Bond Scott
was found dead. Bon Scott died drinking. His death nearly
killed the band. I think we'll ever get out of
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that one. You know, it's so hard to believe that
the next day didn't not there. He had been part
of their lives for a long time. That was a
bit numb, That was really a bit non really fun
whispond It was always the same and never expecting a Dumpton.
It's quite a shock. We wanted to continue to band,
but we just didn't have the will to its hid
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For A c d C. The death of Bond Scott
was more than the loss of a band mate. It
was a death in the family, and from the beginning
A c d C was all about family. In en
sixty three, Malcolm and Angus Young's unemployed father moved his
family from their native Scotland to Australia. Ten year old
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Malcolm in eight year old Angus were a pair of
immigrant kids looking to fit in. I had to learn
how they talked. And because Australia has got a bit
mix of American and a bit you know, the old
world English. The youngest of eight children, Angus and Malcolm
remember a childhood with little money but a wealth of music.
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It was just like Cameron and Tarade Tillis. It was
all part of it, you know. It was the norm.
You know, we thought everyone quick why back. Every few
weeks would be a party for one reason or another.
There was an old piano that we had. Somebody would
get on that and they would sing all the old
rock songs. Malcolm and Angus grew wild about rock and roll,
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especially when they're older brother, George formed his own band,
The Easy Beats, became a big hit down on In
the spring of sixty seven, The Easy Beats scored a
hit in America. Friday on My Mind went to number
sixteen on the U S Singles charts. Angus and Malcolm
were inspired by their big brothers rise to start them
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My family just a rise in Australia. Penniless in six
months wiety, he got TV cameras. Outside the doors, you
got famous brother in the famous band. Eager to follow
in their brother's footsteps, Malcolm and Angus quit school and
joined separate bands. But in nine seventy three, twenty year
old Malcolm suggested to eighteen year old Angus that they
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joined forces. That's all, well, why not better than work?
We told our parents were both in the same vines
they are. I'll give you a week to survive because
we fought all the time. But when big brother George
came home from a concert tour, he was impressed by
what he heard. All of a sudden, the Kid Brothers
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book still a kid of problems, but oh my God,
and knew how to play. Angus and Malcolm's band need
did a need to match their high powered sound. Her
Sister Margaret's sewing machine triggered a flash of inspiration while
the machine that had a easy on the battle and
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we would toss around names for weeks, and she just
said it one night and everyone went, that's that's good.
The name stuck, as did another gimmick courtesy of Sister
Margaret's sewing machine. She said to Ngers, you know he's
still more like a schoolboy. You know, I'm no, we
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have a schoolboy here. I think she said it jokingly.
The next thing, she was stitching our school since far,
there's a fun thing, you know, I said, I you
can go as a schoolboy, then you can graduate and
come back it in the jeans. George, my older brother,
he used to try and bopping me up and he
said he'll be rich very quick. And of course, you know,
at first I believed him, so I thought a better
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in my keep, you know. In four brother Jeorge Rige
and fellow Easy Beach band member Harry Banda, we're producing
records for a small Australian league. They decided to record
a C D C. There was no sort of do
they have it, don't have? It was obvious that they
had something a C D C's first single was released
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in July of The record was a regional hit and
led to a small local tour. The Brothers Young weren't
happy with their lead singer Dave Evans. You know he
got on with his Night Captain maybe even cases wait
is not high. Malcolm and Angus were looking for a
new front man when in the summer of seventy four,
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their future drove up in the person of Ronald bond Scott.
He was kind of win. He pulled up in his
old beat up fifty sky you know you can barely see,
just sort of sort of maniac hid and his you know,
this crazy guy come and lying down their way and
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like the Young Brothers, bond Scott was another Scottish immigrant
raised in Australia. When we met him for the first time,
it was out the nine him forever, the bond with us, guys,
you always behind a brother. Bonn was a headstrong, wild child,
found and determined to be a rock star. All he
wanted to do is be the singer in a vine.
You couldn't stop him. Once he made up his mind
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that was what he wanted to do, and he just
did it. Bond dreamed of fame, but found trouble and staff.
By four, he had already served jail time for assaulting
a cop and had recently survived a near field motorcycle crash.
Bonne had already burned out in local bands like the
Valentines and Fraternity. To Malcolm and Angus, Bond looked and
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sounded like a perfect fit for a c d C.
We need bonk sing rock and roll. And from that
point we kept Pastor and him. You know, we didn't
like to come and sing. We just said, do you
want to draw? Without even fine with the guy. That's
how confident we will. It's uh. He was gonna work
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with it. Angus and Malcolm had no doubts about hiring
Bond Scott to front a c d C. Two weeks later,
we show up and we got George. You've got a
new singer, and you go what big brother? George felt
his little brothers had lost their minds and bonnet and
a kneeling with a shot jaw. I think hanging over
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was about Disney lost a couple of teeth rolling tell
Us does he looked like he'd been around the block
come all than at the time, George was like, there's
your mind? No doubt. He says, that's reshaped the whole thing.
You're a real rock and roll back coming up. A
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c d C invades London and later death comes called
when behind the music continued m By seventy four, twenty
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one year old Malcolm Young and his nineteen year old
brother Anchors had formed a band and found a frontman.
Twenty eight year old Bond Scott was a perfect fit
for a c d C. A hard rocking, hard living dynamo.
His first appearance with the band was an oleman of
hell raising to come the first gig. You know, he's
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got a bottler urban and that's he just he just
juices at all, you know, and then he's got and
his drugs and everything coming in. I said to bath
for I said, it'll be lucky if he can walk
lat alone, sing and bon Scott's behavior may have been shocking,
but his performance was electric and we heard the voice
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properly in that God's got some voice. He can scream
a great malady, He's got great fail e. C d
C had found their voice. They went into the studio
to record their debut album, and in January of the
band took their high volt of Jack across the Australian
club circuit. They were the Aussie blows idea of a
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good time. It was just hot and down and fast
and mean, rib crunching, skull crushing, sort of blistering rock
and roll. Then you know they weren't going to sleep
in a ballad on you. Having conquered Sydney's music scene,
a C d C relocated to Melbourne and retooled the
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group's line up. Bon Scott's voice had raised the band
to another level, but there was room for improvement. The
first High Waters album had been released, but I was
still looking to sort of secure the permanent band members.
In early seventy five, drummer Phil Rudd joined the band.
In the Debauchery, we were living in this house for
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six months, still the best days of our lives. There
was more action going on there. They never since tomorrow
weld cup and drank again and we just continued on
like that a long time. The party continued. That spring,
n C d c's cover of Baby Please Don't Go
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went top ten and became their first nationwide hit. That April,
the band made a notorious appearance on Australian television as
Bond gave new meaning to the phrase dress for success.
I'll never forget it on countdown bund dressed and drag
You know there was unheard of that then Bonds Drag
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Acts served a further A C d C's raucous reputation,
and by the summer of seventy five they had a
gold record and a growing fan base in Australia. I
see had the young audience, violent fame adoring this spad
but as A C d C second but went to
number two in Australia. The band had no intention of
remaining local heroes. In early seventy six, they scored a
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deal with Atlantic Records to release their music internationally. That spring,
A C d C boarded a plane to London, looking
to conquer the world. I think it was inevitable that
A C. We're gonna outgrow Australia. There were there was
a whole world waiting for them. Their fast and furious
style was a hit in London's burgeoning punk scene, and
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A C d C was soon headed cross country to
rock the rest of Great Britain. Their reputation as the
rude and rowdy band from Australia preceded them. I think
they thought it was some sort of mild stripper. At
some point, I think I played one not in my
cane noon. I didn't know what they arrest people for that.
I didn't know. A C d C came to be
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considered less a band than a band of outlaw. On stage,
A C d C did everything they could too shock.
Off stage, they got serious about their music, working with
Angus and Malcolm's older brother George, who produced their next album,
Let there Be Rock, Me and Mountain said, when we
really want to like guitars in pink guitars. Released in
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the summer of seventy seven, Let there Be Rock blasted
onto the US charts. A C d C were on
the verge of becoming an international hard rock phenomenon. In
January of nineteen seventy nine, A C d C began
work on an album called Highway to Hell, a title
the record company hated from the start. Phrase with that title,
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and they didn't want that title, and I said, hogwash,
and we're calling it Highway now, and that's how it is.
When Highway to Hell hit record stores that summer, it's
title spawned rumors that the wild men of A C
d C were devil worshipers. But to A C d C.
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Highway to Hell was a tribute to the hard life
of a touring rock and roll band. If you could
have been on the road with us for those years
up to that point, you were are not exactly what
we were talking about. After six hard years on the
road and in the studio, A C d C's GrITT
and determination, we're finally paying off Bond Scott was enjoying
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the high times. Only for Bond the high times were
even higher. And we got back to the hotel us
at Old Bonging and thrain them morning you know, crash,
but now just one more drink and wait Whyecott? The
morning on Whycoup and getting up back onto East drink.
Where were we? Where they were was on the rise.
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Highway to Hell raced up the billboard charts and hit
the top twenty as the seventies came to a close.
As the eighties began, A C d C look forward
to further rock and roll glory. After seven years and
thousands of gigs, from the plubs of Australia to the
stadiums of the world, A C d C rode Highway
to Hell to international success in the summer of nineteen
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seventy odd as the year drew to a close. The
decade ahead promised more gold records and good fortune, but
the band's exhausting workload and equally intense appetite for drugs
and alcohol we're taking their inevitable toll. Frontman Bond Scott
led the partying as well. No one could stop Bonds
Wild Waves, not even his beloved mother. You didn't tell
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her on what to do. I never went too far.
I just said I didn't like him drinking. But to
get to that staga, don't listen to you. Under pressure
to record a follow up to Highway to Hell, a
C d C returned to London in January. Of night,
Malcolm and Angus Young invited Bond to the studio, eager
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to play him the new music for their next album,
They will Fantasty's looking up yourself. Yeah, it's taste little
fixed and he said, you know, we're just about ready
for you, pont So mightbe next week sometime, you know.
Of course I never had never happened. You know, Bond
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would never put lyrics to the music Malcolm and Angus
had written. On Tuesday night, February, Bond Scott went out
drinking in London with a friend. He went out just
for a drink, a relaxation, you know, maybe the clear
the heads, you know, and then he look forward to
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getting into his right and come up with some ideas.
You know. He had it all in front of him
on that cold night. Bond Scott was only thirty three
years old, but his time was running out. After a
night of heavy drinking, Bond ended the evening alone passed
out in a car parked outside his friend's house. In
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the morning, he was found dead from what I still
can gather. He had formed asleep, you know, in a
car and you know, asphyxiated each through the through the
night the position he was sleeping during the night, Bond
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had apparently vomited in his sleep and choked to death.
Angus was the first band member to get the sad news.
I had called the guy was managing us and he
told that it was true that he had died. So
m h Angus called me. I just thought, we stunned.
You can't explain to death and how it affects you.
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You know, everything just is not It's as simple as that.
I wonder, you know, just what do you do Within hours,
everyone in the band knew the awful truth, and the
media were already flashing the news of Bond's death. Malcolm
took it upon himself to notify Bond's family in Australia
before the tabloid reporters got to them first. Someone had
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to tell him, you know, and it better coming from
one of the bye and from a newspaper over the phone. Yeah,
I got shock of my life. But I thought it
was him on the end of the phone and I
just screamed, Yeah, the most difficult thing I've had to do.
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God knows how they felt. I hope I never have
to do anything like that again. The band pulled together
and refused all interviews. While Bond's death was sensationalized in
the tabloid press, especially in Britain, they made it a
bit of a joke almost, you know, and we've never
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forgiven of for that or we were concerned about it
mainly at that song with Bond's parents. They're really nice people.
They don't need a lot of the stories are I
don't know, not don't not very good reading sometimes, you know,
I just had to skip over the bad bits. As
the grim news swirled around them, his friends and band
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meets dealt with the pain of a crushing blow. I mean,
that was Bond's life. I mean, even though he was
this sweet, lovely guy, he did drink a lot, he
did sort of live the rock and roll lifestyle to
its absolute extreme. But she, you know, might have been
drunk before. I mean, you know, I mean, one shouldn't
have died. There was a loss to us of this
incredible character that all of us had embraced and he
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had embraced us. All work on E C d c's
new album was suspended, and Malcolm and Angus flew home
to Australia to lend support to Barns parents and warned
the loss of a man who had become brother to them.
When you're younger, you don't really think that something like
death it's gonna touch you, you know. I'd never really
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had that a tragedy that close, you know, and especially
someone like Bomb. It was just one of those things
where you know, one day somebody is there and and
it's so hard to believe that the next day not fit.
On March one, Bond Scott was buried in Fremant, the
town where he was raised, and you got for the
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emotions of the funeral and everything else. We just really
just dumbfound I just can't believe what's really happened. To know,
I think we'll ever get out of that one. We
wanted to continue to buy, but we just didn't have
the will to. Without Bond, the surviving band members believed
A c d C was dead, but Bond's parents encouraged
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them to keep the band alive, that Bond would have
wanted it that way. Let's you know, we've got dead blessing,
you know, so West Colin try to do something. But
after five years with Bond Scott up front, raising hell
and raising the roof, A c d C's bright future
had dim and there was more darkness ahead coming up.
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Music for a band in Mourning and later a serial
killer and Guilt by Association when behind the music continues
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in A c d C. Was reeling from the loss
of their friend and frontman lead singer Bond Scott, but
the band's founding members Angus and Malcolm Young were convinced
that Bond would have wanted A c d C to
carry on, and we all agreed with classrophos and that
would want to say it follows would be bombed. Finding
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a lead singer to replace Bond Scott was a daunting task.
Bond's powerhouse voice and on a bass showmanship had been
central to a c d C success. Their search lad
them to Brian Johnson, and I saw them on television
a program called Rook Goes to College. I was just
transmitted with Angus and Bond and these two guys of
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Front with two the greatest characters I think I've ever seen,
and especially Angus, you know, and I just I was hooked.
Brian auditioned for a band that was feeling mixed emotions
about replacing a friend they had buried only a month earlier.
There would never be another Bomb. It's dry and walked
in one day Front audition. He just felt really comfortable
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with him and it and again he could sing his
balls out. A c DC hired Brian in April of
ninety and got down to the task of making their
first album without Bond Scott. The music of the album
it's titled, and its cover we're all dedicated to Bond's memory.
He wanted it just a simple black cover. We wouldn't
have even done Injustice and words also even you know,
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with the bell and the beginning of the health meals
is our own little tributes. During the emotional sessions for
Back in Black, Ryan Johnson stepped up to the microphone
and into bond scott shoes. I mean by just going
up there and just just crossing my fingers and just
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boating me along as I as high and as hard
as I could, with as much feeling as I could.
I want to impress these guys. As Brian and the
band prepared for the upcoming Back in Black tour, there
was apprehension about how their new lead singer would be
accepted by the fans. Brian was very worried, you know
at the talking me. But we thought, well, you're just
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sanging that, Brian. You just do what you do best.
It was the first time ever I'll be singing some
of Bond's songs. Nerve racking. It was real nerve racking.
Those kids, you know, in the first gig we did,
those fans were there. Good walk, Brian, you know, you
know the space Wishes. There was banners everywhere. That's for
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a shot. The fans were still with a CDC and
now there would be millions more of them released In
the summer of nine teen eighty Back in Black sold
sixteen million copies to become one of the ten best
selling albums in rock and roll history. To come back
that strong with a new vocalist is an absolutely remarkable
feat for them to accomplish. A C d C's musical
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memorial to Bond Scott hit the top five on three continents,
and that fall Back in Black spawned the band's first
top forty single. The album's phenomenal success proved an impossible
act to follow after Black and Black was so huge.
The world was navy for this, you know, for this
follow up, and I just don't think you can do it.
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The stock market that did kind of fogged down sometime,
you know, I mean, But falling album sales were only
the start of a streak of bad luck that would
haunt A C d C throughout the eighties. In the
spring of Night five, A C d C became linked
to the investigation of a murder case in California. Upon
investigating that murder, one of the pieces of evidence that
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was left behind was they had bearing the letters A
C d C on it in an attempt to track
down the infamous killer known as the night Stalker. Homicide
detective Guilt Corea released a picture of the hat to
the press. What the significance was was trying to get
attention through the media to see if anybody knew somebody
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that wore an A C d C had that might
call Jared Pilot Martinez Helvin. The county was held in terror.
They were full of fear. While law enforcement pressed their
manhunt for the mystery man suspected in thirteen brutal murders,
the press built up the serial killer's link to A
C d C. Press assumed an awful lot, and the
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press put a lot more to the significance of the
hat than the homicide investigators. On August thirty one, the
night Stalker was finally arrested. The press reported that Richard Ramirez,
a confessed Satanist, was inspired by A. C d C
Has Children for us. I mean, why are we connected anyway?
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Reporters analyzed the lyrics to the A C d C
song Night Prowler for connections to the night stalker. Class
song not cold Nights. The focus will night Prowler, and
it's that things used to do when you're a kid,
like sneaking girlfriend's bedroom window and their parents. It just
sickens you. You know, sicken as you had to have
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anything to do with that kind of thing. The media
frenzy surrounding the Ramira's case horrified the band. As the
press played up the satanic angle, it was suggested that
A c d C's name stood for Antichrist Devil's children.
It's been called everything since you know A C d C.
The meaning of the wetters, you know, no matter you
tell them the song machine story and everything, and they
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still think, now there's more to this. And I don't
know why they zeroed in on us. I could never
see their connection myself, but the negative press surrounding the
night Stalker case had already done its damage. That same year,
A C d C found themselves at the center of
another controversy when the Parents Music Resource Center, led by
a group of U. S. Senators wives including Tipper Gore,
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placed A c d C at the top of a
list of artists they deemed obscene. You got idiots like
Tipper Gore? Who really is twitter? The attacks on A
C d C continued through the mid eighties, but the
band ignored their critics and focused their energy on a
string of gold records and one concert tour after another.
I's only shut clops to play We're cool. You know,
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we could quite around the world in clubs. Hey what
a life. So we were never you know, felt the
feeding still. The years since Bondscott's death had taken a
toll on Malcolm. His drinking had steadily increased, and in
April of eight eight, he finally bottomed down my drinking
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over talk, you know, my whole thing, and I felt
like cat almost thought the jackal missed high. On stage,
Malcolm tried to keep it together, but offstage he was unraveling.
In the middle of the band's Blow Up Your Video tour,
and Malcolm realized he couldn't take it anymore. Started talk
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with Angus and you said that what you feel I
could at least take a break. I think he was
worried about me, that he'd be disappointing me. But he
turned and he said, look, I'm gonna and I'll have
to stop, you know, because if I continue, he you know,
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he felt he become a casualty, you know, and he
was a big enough man to turn around and say,
you know, I kind of go up with this. So
I was letting people dis make people get worried about me.
I wasn't brain dead, but I I was just physically
and meant me screwed by the by the alcohol. The
brothers recruited their nephew Stevie to play for Malcolm while
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he fought to get sober. In time, with the help
of alcoholics, anonymous, Malcolm was able to put down the
bottle and pick up the guitar. That did it, That
got me right. It's it put me on track. You know.
It wiped your right up. God knows what he went through,
but whatever it was, he fixed. He fixed yourself better
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than ever, you know, huh. A re energized Malcolm joined
the sessions for A. C d C's fourteenth album in
Razor's Edge, would slash its way to the second spot
on the US album charts and sell over three million copies.
It was all back to normal. M So right. That's
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about all I should say about that. It was a detour,
a bad detour I had to take you, and so happened.
I never got it out way again. Malcolm had saved
his own life, but death had not yet finished haunting
A C d C. Well. January eighteenth, a concert in
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Salt Lake City, Utah, turned into a nightmare. Taro Knights,
Tarior Knights Forget as long as I Live. The concert
had barely begune when tragedy struck. Seating was not reserved,
so that night, as the doors opened, thirteen thousand eager
fans rushed forward to claim seats near the front of
the stage. Three fans were trampled to death in the stampede.
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At the time, A C d C didn't know the
full story, and I gotta well, there's one dead, and
I I was it. I just sat him, just tears.
Angus was just just ate himself. I could say he
was well and tried to hold it together as best
you could. The band wanted to stop the show, but
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were advised to play on to avoid further chaos. When
they later learned that three fans had been crushed to death,
they were heartbroken. I think what hurt most is the
next day in the newspapers there same banned cleared on
where kids died about them, and that had a photograph
of me with a spil on new fist. It was
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just journalistic opportunity that just went beyond the bones of decency.
You know. I was just so angry and hurt to
make matters worse, the band faced lawsuits claiming that they
were responsible for the fatality. The lawsuits were coming flying
at us from every angle. Was a feeding friends and
reading well, I think at the end of the day,
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it's your name on the ticket, you know, and it's
your name that they that they see. By spring of
ninety one, the court dismissed A c d C from
a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the father of one
of the three teenagers killed in Salt Lake City, Bray
c d C. The ninet nineties, like the eighties, had
begune on a dismal note. Hopefully their luck would change
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in the decade to come. After a tragic concert in
Salt Lake City in January of n A c d
C was hoping for a fresh start in the new
decade and a chance to put their often painful pass
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behind them. In September of ninety one, Russian President Baris
Yeltson invited A c d C to headline a pre
concert for young Russians who had helped to block a
communist coup. When we arrived in Moscow, getting off the plane,
there's just so many people. They it was like they
just stopped work on the night of September over a
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million Russians rocked with A C d C at a
former Soviet air base. That was a great gig on
him walking on man, just beaten, you know, I mean,
it was just forever forever. The band left Moscow with
a renewed sense of optimism. For A c d C.
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It had been a long, hard highway to hell from
Australia to Russia, seventeen years of heartbreak and hit records.
In the year two thousand, A c d C released
their seventeenth album, Stiff Upper Lift. Even after all that time,
they were still the same hard rockers as when they
formed the band back in ninety three. They went on
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to release the Black Ice album in two thousand eight,
which would turn out to be Malcolm Young's last. With
a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's disease, he would be unable
to continue on with the band. It was decided that
his nephew Stevie Young, would take his place for their
upcoming Rock or Bust album and tour. Malcolm died in
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at sixty four years old. In the group released Power Up,
a tribute to the late Malcolm Young. After almost fifty years,
Crowd still can't get an enough of a c DCS explosive,
electrifying rock and roll. The legacy of Bond, Scott and
Malcolm Young lives on as the group continues to rock
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