As AC/DC announce Malcolm Young's retirement and the release of a new album, Rock Or Bust, we look back at the life of former frontman Bon Scott in a piece taken from Uncut's December 2013 issue (Take 199). A street poet who’d been inside for ‘carnal knowledge’? A teenybop idol and hippy seer? A tearaway who swam with jellyfish and rode motorbikes naked? “A fantastic guy, a real human, so different to what people thought…” Words: Peter Watts_________________________
AC/DC have revealed that they have completed work on their new album.
Brian Johnson, who collected an honorary doctorate from Northumbria University today, has said that the band have finished work on the LP, which they have been working on in Vancouver. It is likely to be released later this year or early next year.
"It was brilliant over there. We’re done. I’m very excited and we’ve got some great songs," he told Metal Hammer.
AC/DC's Malcolm Young is to step down from the band due to ill health.
Rumours have circulated in the past few days that the band might be forced to call it quits, with Choirboys frontman and friend of the band Mark Gable saying that the guitarist is seriously ill and will not be able to perform any more.
A statement published on AC/DC's Facebook page yesterday afternoon (April 16) confirms that Young will take a break from the group after four decades as a member.
Brian Johnson has debunked rumours that AC/DC are about to retire.
Speaking to The Telegraph, Johnson revealed that the band are planning to get together and write material for a prospective new album, despite the ill-health of one of their members, believed to be rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young.
Bruce Springsteen was joined on stage by Eddie Vedder over the weekend.
Springsteen and the E Street Band were performing at AAMI Park in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday (February 15).
They opened their set with a cover of AC/DC's "Highway To Hell", with Vedder joining in on vocals.
Vedder also performed "Darkness On The Edge of Town", the second song of the set, with the band.
AC/DC have revealed plans to enter the studio later this year in order to record their first new album since 2008's Brendan O'Brien produced Black Ice.
Bruce Springsteen opened his set at the Perth Arena in Australia with a cover of AC/DC's 1979 hit 'Highway To Hell' – scroll down to watch.
Springsteen appeared at the venue on Friday [February 6]. AC/DC's singer Bon Scott grew up near Perth. Highway To Hell was the final album he recorded with the band before his death in 1980.
The Australian leg of Springsteen's tour continues tomorrow night [February 11] in Adelaide.
