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- The term "AC/DC"
is a slang for bisexuality--something that the Young brothers did not find
out till later.
- Bon, Malcolm and Angus
all left school when they were fourteen and nine months years old--that is
the legal age in which Australian kids can leave school.
- Angus worked as a janitor
and typesetter and Malcolm worked as a sewing-machine-maintenance mechanist
in a brassiere factory while they played in their respective bands.
- Angus and Malcolm backed
Harry Vanda and George Young in their Marcus Hook Roll Band project--it was
the first work the Youngs did together.
- People that were confused
over what "AC/DC" meant would book them to play at gay-themed events
and the band was not going to turn gigs down.
- In 1989, when U.S. troops
invaded Panama, they played "Highway To Hell" outside the Vatican
Embassy--where Manuel Noriega was hidden--at top volume to draw the general
out. Brian's reply: "I guess now we won't get to play for the pope."
- Eddie Kramer wanted
AC/DC to cover the Spencer Davis Group hit "Gimme Some Lovin'" for
HIGHWAY TO HELL as a surefire way to score a hit in America.
- Angus had, at one point,
a costume to which the band refered to "Super Angus." He also used
a Zorro outfit and a gorilla suit in other occassions.
- The song "She's
Got Balls" was written by Bon about his estranged wife, Irene.
- One of AC/DC's first
supporters in England was the magazine New Music Express--a punk rock magazine.
(The band despises punk.)
- It was Malcolm who came
up with the main riff for "Back In Black"--ironically, after he
layed it on tape, he asked Angus whether he thought it was good or bad.
- Bands did not want AC/DC
to open for them since they often blew them out of the water. Some of them
included Foreigner, Van Halen and Sammy Hagar.
- Many of the conservative
Christian groups believed that the lightning bolt between the AC and the DC
was a Satanic S.
- During their earlier
years, the band made several video singles--among them "It's A Long Way
To The Top" and "Jailbreak." "It's A Long Way" featured
the band playing in the flatbed of a truck with three bagpipe players while
"Jailbreak" was shot in jail.
- Bon used to carry a
tape player in which he would record song and lyric ideas. During the Highway
to Hell tour, he lost it.
- After leaving AC/DC,
Phil Rudd had put a flying business together in New Zealand and continued
to play in a private studio.
- Chris Slade had played
with Tom Jones and was a member of Jimmy Page's band, The Firm, before joining
AC/DC.
- Angus lives in the Netherlands,
Malcolm lives in England, Cliff and Brian live in Florida and Phil lives in
New Zealand.
- The song "Go Down"
was inspired by a groupie of the band's named Ruby Lips.
- AC/DC was one of four
acts invited to the mega "Monsters Of Rock" concert in Moscow--the
others were Metallica, Black Crowes and Pantera. The concert was a way of
thanking the youth of Russia, who stood up and stopped the military coup that
took place there.
- Malcolm had originally
intented to be the only guitarist in AC/DC. In the other guitar's place, he
wanted to have a piano player. He changed his mind at the last moment and
took Angus.
- Bon was born and first
lived in the Scottish county of Angus.
- The video for "Cover
You In Oil" was shot in Cincinnati, Ohio. You can see the Cincinnati
Coliseum in the distance.
- Bon's parents still
refer to him as Ron.
- When Bon was arrested
at age 16, he chose to serve time at a boys' home rather than face his parents,
whom he felt he had dissapointed.
- Phil Rudd's full name
is Phil neeRudzevecuis.
- The show the band did
before leaving for England was the first time Angus ever mooned an audience.
- (Musical magazine) Sounds'readers
picked AC/DC as the leader of the "new order" in 1976.
- AC/DC came close to
being dropped by Atlantic's U.S. division, but retained its spot thanks to
U.K. division manager Phil Carson.
- After the band arrived
in London, Bon was hit with a pint mug--by someone with a grudge--as he entered
a pub where he had bartended during Fraternity's days. That's why, in the
band's first photo sessions, Bon is wearing shades.
- AC/DC's first strongholds
in America were Jacksonville, Florida and Columbus, Ohio.
- AC/DC opened the August
18th Wembley show for The Who--at the headliners' request.
- The band prefers to
use buses rather than planes when they are on tour.
- When Brian auditioned,
he sung "Whole Lotta Rosie."
- Brian acted in local
TV programs as a child.
- The first shows Brian
did were in Holland and Belgium.
- "Put The Finger
On You" was inspired by an old James Cagney film the singer was watching
at early morning. In a scene, Cagney turns to Humphrey Bogart and says, "Watch
it buster, or I'm going to put the finger on you."
- During the FTATR tour,
the band was forced to drop "For Those About To Rock" in New Haven,
Conneticut due to the fire regulations in the venue. The police actually had
Ian Jeffery (road manager) and the crew handcuffed and had threatened to arrest
the band.
- Many Christian conservative
groups had come to the decision that AC/DC stood for either "Anti-Christ/Devil's
Children" or "Anti-Christ/Devil's Crusade."
- Angus' hobby is to paint
landscapes, while Brian's are to work on motorcycles and study military history.
- During Donnington '91,
Brian Johnson told Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx that his tattoos looked as if
someone had thrown up on his arms.
- At a show in Belfast
in '91, Angus' second pair of briefs ripped at the front without him realizing
it. He didn't see it until the entire band and audience had been stunned by
the sight.
- The video for "Hard
As A Rock" was filmed at Bray Studios in Windsor where horror movies
used to be filmed--including "The Curse of Frankenstein."