AC/DC : Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be

ACDC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London’s Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock and soon-to-be punk crowd. They weren’t really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was the original bike-riding, speed-snorting, fighting man.

An ex-convict he lived life fast and short; he died in February 1980, just before Back in Black, their huge-selling album, took off, and the second period of ACDC (with Brian Johnson as lead vocalist) was ushered in. Back in Black has gone on to sell 45 million copies worldwide, and as the band have become a global phenomenon so their recluisveness has increased. Mick Wall, the don of heavy metal writing, seeks to penetrate the wall around the Young brothers, and write the first authoritative, in-depth critcal account of ACDC.