AC/DC: Dirty Deeds (FULL MOVIE)

they came with one intention to bring straightforward no nonsense rock music to the masses with grit and determination they rose from a small rock scene in Australia to become one of the most successful acts in the world their 1980 record back in black is the second best-selling album of all time and to date they have sold more than 200 million albums worldwide with nearly 40 years in the music business they are arguably the greatest rock and roll band the world has ever seen they are the one and only ac/dc [Music] well they're not only had great catchy songs but they appeared to be living the rock and roll dream and I guess blur and probably Stiller to be around them was to be around a bunch of guys who were keeping alive the ethic of working class laughs kicked off on us rock and roll and everything to do with it we do what we do best which is it worked it clearly worked so well so quickly it only took them just over six years to become one of the very biggest heavy rock bands that there ever was you'd be luckier if a band had managed to release two albums in six years these days they had the simplicity about them that told its own story we're not talking about music we're not talking about rock'n'roll we're not talking about groove were talking about a spirit they dialed it by knild it very very early and they keep doing it they're really straight down the line easygoing place you know that's what I really like about them they haven't really changed at all I guess we'll just keep treating to our roots I suppose and we're doing try to change and as we stake a chord when you're on the road they have inspired and influenced so many people in so many different ways but ultimately everyone still looks up to them because they are ac/dc [Music] with the release of the Iron Man 2 soundtrack in 2010 Rock Giants ac/dc achieved their third number-one album in the UK and their eighth top 10 in the US a compilation of hits dating back to 1975 it has so far sold almost 2 million copies worldwide following on from 2008 record-breaking Black Ice album and the band's subsequent two-year tour to support it after nearly 40 years in the music industry ac/dc are clearly stronger than ever did you think about young man to soundtrack doubt me first really proper ac/dc compilation because they always refused to do them in the past it was one put together in the late 70s that was scrapped before he even came out so DC used the whole idea being approached to do something with the Iron Man 2 movie to do a compilation album of course there's nothing new on the record he just represents them across the ages and the eras but the fact that they could do that and sell so many copies I think it really proves a to DC now are bigger than they've ever been since frat guys came out you know you couldn't turn a corner without being confronted by ac/dc in in some way and the success of Iron Man was simply into getting a cross of their musical message to any audience but perhaps if this had been 10 years ago the audience might have viewed ac/dc as a bunch of of old farts the younger audience were a lot more savvy these days and also I think the fact a CDC do carry some kind of cultish clout they are viewed very much as legends and although the years preceding black ice perhaps weren't their most fruitful the fact that they perhaps out of the public life absorb large periods of time helped sort of fuel that sort of cult fire that that sort of exploded underneath them and then just went absolutely stratospheric now in their late fifties and early sixties the band members shown no sign of losing their passion and energy for heavy rock and roll singer Brian Johnson guitarists malcolm and angus young bassist cliff Williams and drummer Phil Rudd continued to play too packed arena as much as they did when ac/dc first rose to superstardom in the late 1970s and although their antics offstage have calmed over the years on stage they're still one of the world's most energetic live acts Angus and Brian normally have done the interviews that I've done with them and there are these couple little blokes sitting on a couch backstage Brian with these little thing on Angus sipping on a cup of tea meantime you've got you know bus loads of people and black t-shirts scowling jack daniel´s outside and going along for the night of their lives and these two unassuming folks who are about to cause mayhem and Mary hell in front of 20,000 people cool as cucumbers backstage it's quite a dichotomy and it's fascinating ac/dc are without question one of the greatest live bands of all time and remains so every time you see them you just wonder and how much energy Angus has because he is perpetual motion and in fact he keeps going night after night almost without stopping it's remarkable to say the lease it's a force of nature [Applause] [Music] for you it's not the money thing that keeps kept you going you know it's enjoying what you do yeah that's what keeps you going yeah I'm just one of those people can you know put it put on the guitar put on the school suit once I got the school suit on I'm ready to go yeah yeah you know I wind up the back and off I go among the music world's most iconic figures a CD C's guitar God in a school uniform Angus Young is one of only two band members to have remained in the group since its inception in Australia in the early 70s the other is his older brother Malcolm and together they have steered ac/dc through five decades of hard rocking never ever ever underestimate the importance of the young family in the ac/dc story it's their vision it's their Drive it's their support I mean they're a big Scottish family they all went to Australia you know they're a clan you know they stick together and they fight for their own and that attitude has prevailed from day one in ac/dc you know it's a family affair Malcolm Angus Young Awards being the foreman of ac/dc mark was pretty much was the founder and Angus became a key image and the talismanic figure within decent husband for so many years and it's become more and more their band I think as times gone on they're the songwriters they're the people who decide when the others are called in to record accenture and they are very controlling very much it's their focus and their vision and without that you wouldn't have to see as we know them today I have known it for so many decades however they're very secretive I don't like doing interviews I don't like being public figures and never have done nothing that combination of being able to do the music in their own way of knowing better than anybody else what is ac/dc but also keeping yourselves apart from the public has made thee see who they are and what they are today and while they've been written off many times as irrelevant and as relics of rocks distant past the young brothers have consistently remained focused ensuring that their current work maintains the standards set by the albums that launch them into the big time back in the seventies if you compare the Rolling Stones and ac/dc I mean the last time the Rolling Stones made a good out and he's so long ago to be fair however every album has one or two songs and people pick up on and then the banner had quite happy to so anything in just to fill up the gaps Malcolm and Angus have a different approach they're so cut off in a way from that sort of mentality and feel anything will do for ac/dc they're proud of the Heritage in the history of ac/dc what it stands for and the last two arms stiff upper lip and black eyes in the 21st century have been a return to form especially black eyes as long as this good music is still coming through that's that's that's what keeps the yeah I mean we still feel we got sir you know good rock-and-roll tunes inners sir that's what keeps you going the challenge you know trying to deliver come up with something a bit different but still ac/dc however firmly established the band on now their rise to the top was far from simple the story of the young brothers and ac/dc began back in 1963 when their family emigrated to Sydney Australia form their native Scotland a working-class family with little money they passed through immigrant hostels with the eight children all sharing a passion for music they were a working-class Glasgow family and bunch of brothers have one sister the older sister Margaret and she used to in fact buy records in a sort of 45's of you know Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and Diddley a Jerry Lee Lewis and she planted the seed it was Angus and Malcolm's older brother George however who would be their key inspiration within a year of the family's moved to Australia he had formed a band the easy beats and by 1966 they were achieving worldwide success the you see beats for a mid-60s Ossie beat combo we could almost say they have a lot of connections with the Beatles huge hit internationally Friday on my mind written by Harry van der and George Young and their the important team because those two went on to become crucial in the development of ac/dc George young a because she was Angus and Malcolm his older brother and therefore already popular within music and his relationship with Harry van Gogh has been compared to Lennon and McCartney in a funny way went beyond that because whereas Lennon McCartney very much wrote for the Beatles and a couple of other things Vander and Jung found their celebrity and their niche producing other bands and writing for other bands George Young to some extent a longer hair Evander took DC under his wing in the early days certainly in terms of production and in properties the way they compose and arrange songs so you can never underestimate the the value of having that within the family and it was through George that Malcolm and Angus had their first taste of Fame something that happened at the height of easy fever when the easy beats were the biggest group in the country a fan magazine or just at the entertainment magazine foolishly printed the address of the young family house in Burwood about 200 camicazi girls from a local high school descended upon the young family dwelling and about 20 of them got inside and this was the barbarians storming the gates I mean they trash the how they mauled everything they could find including this whole brother Angus because I think when they came out in Malcolm was 8 and Angus was 5 or 6 so they're still young and I would I would imagine having 20 screaming schoolgirls men manhandling you at that impressionable age may well have had something to do with deciding this could be fun with George's both an inspiration and a guiding hand when Malcolm and Angus left school each pursued a life in music and in 1973 after failing to succeed separately in various bands the two brothers joined forces and created ac/dc with the other band members drawn from the very best Sydney had to offer in the December they made the first of many appearances on the local pub and club scene a notoriously tough live circuit it's a chicken and egg thing as to have the Milton hist rebellion pubs did the audience's shape the bands or did the band sort of you know inform the audiences well it was a bit of both but you know if you couldn't rock you were dead Australian music was forged in the pubs and clubs of this country that's where the bands learnt their chops paid their dues honed their skills they CDC came out of that great heritage and you know they hurt their stripes in front of the punters of Australia when we were playing live it was always with the audience if they if they liked what we did they clapped and if they they hated it they booed you we never worried so much about Jesus in fact I don't think we ever really sort of worried the minuto Isaac wasn't even the case even when we started with money or anything it was just a great excuse not to work I think you know I was running a club in Melbourne called the Hard Rock Cafe actually is you know not original idea of mine and they came and played for me and then took off interstate and I didn't hear from them for a while and all of a sudden I got a call from Malcolm and to say we're stranded in Perth I think it was a delight of her it would be possible to lend them some money which I did and they came over and they played my club myself and another guy called Bill Joseph we put together a management deal which involved giving them a bus row crew we gave them a house to live in and we paid them a wage I think it was 60 bucks a week each a key element of the band's impact was Angus obsessed with the guitar from an early age originally both he and his brother had shared lead duties in ac/dc but as the band developed malcolm took a back seat allowing angus still only a teenager disposed to shine when I was younger and I used to have a food when I was about nine years old I had a Gibson book that and I had gone through it and I used to always keep thinking is if when I got older which guitar I was gonna get and I would keep looking through it but I always used to sit and looking and sort of worship the SG as soon as I had some money I up was well business with your type I mean those times that anger spent in the bedroom in Burwood curled up on his bed in the corner turned him into an incredibly proficient blues guitarist he doesn't tend to get that much recognition you're thinking he was a good rock guitar he's a great blues guitarist and he has a an extraordinary flair and a story facility with what he does on yeah on his oh good Gibson and and I think a lot of young young players have listened real carefully to those records with headphones on and try to work out what he was doing Angus also became the most visually arresting member of ac/dc in an attempt to distinguish the band from their competitors on the live circuit he tried on a number of outrageous stage costumes before his sister Margaret suggested that he go on stage in his old school uniform you know in the beginning the gimmick yeah I suppose you know with something there to keep the visual and it was my sister she came up with the idea and you know she thought it was a good good thing because I want you to come home from school you know I've run in my room and then you know and I'll be practicing on my guitar and she always thought it was very cute and I think even you know it's now people recognize you as the you know the guy in the school suit the most intriguing thing about the ac/dc school uniform thickness Angus is completely associated with these days and you can never imagine Angus going on stage without wearing his school uniform but the funny thing is it was almost desperation that drove him to was wearing it because he tried so many different ideas and costumes xaro's Superman gorilla outfit for instance nothing works somehow and then he went at actually on stage one night wearing his schoolboy uniform because he didn't have time to change and that did work it gave ac/dc and identifiable image at a time when the image was so important because we are talking about the early 70s when you had the sweet you had Slade you had David Bowie you had mud all of whom had their own identifiable image that came out of glam the fact that Angus had his identifiable image and that wasn't glam gave him a hook to sell to the world while Angus was attracting the most attention on stage both as a spectacle and a guitarist Malcolm remained less visible but equally essential not only was he the bandleader providing the group with focus and direction he also began to develop a unique musical bond with his younger brother what can you say there a telepathic musical team this combination I mean Malcolm is a rhythm player and Angus easily I mean it's all perfectly sort of a line just because you can have that chemistry in that balance and they're both doing totally complementary and interlocking things which is interlocked by something even beyond musical kind of empathy they're interlocked by blood I think the initial thing was Angus you know just seeing this kid in a school uniform you know suddenly I've never seen anything like that before was it was amazing this little kid I thought could not this spotted him on stage he was actually only about 1415 or something and he was playing incredible McCarty's brother Malcolm I mean once you get through the visual of the show business side of Angus and you start to listen to what Malcolm's doing you know you realise he's you know the talent is just enormous this was really their shot at making it in life you know and outwardly and to everyone else you know they were party party guys but you know at the end of the day they were pretty together by September 1974 the band had been through several lineup changes and it soon became apparent that their lead singer Dave Evans wasn't the right man to Front ac/dc as luck would have it an experienced vocalist from Perth was also looking for a band Bon Scott another immigrant from Scotland who had found success in the late 60s with the pop band the Valentine's and later the country rock group fraternity bond was older than the various members of ac/dc and he wasn't an obvious choice to become their lead singer why came from a bubblegum group background and then from there he went into a progressive rock group called fraternity when I heard that they wanted to put bond in in the group I didn't quite get it at the first you know it was just due to my preconception of him certainly once he joined the group he just didn't brace the whole rock-and-roll thing you know with Angus in Melbourne just turned into you know this madman I was in the Valentine's dressed him in your pink important purple Kashmir and then he was then you know fraternity where he was brown rice and sandals and playing a flute and then he ends up in ac/dc where he's in jeans sort of they're playing you know hard rock and roll he was a soldier of fortune he was a journeyman he was a guy who'd like to perform he had a great wit and charm about him and enormous energy to him at shakiness a cockiness he was a knock about Ozzy lad despite some reservations from joined ac/dc and immediately added to their sound and their appeal Bon Scott was an absolutely vital recruitment he made that he was so much stuff the focus of the band he was so much the vision and inspiration of the band that in his brief time in DC and it wasn't very long who put into the context of their entire career he became massively important what bun gave them is that presentation of rock and roll he was rock'n'roll the way he acted the way he'd led his life the way behaved on stage and office he was rock'n'roll to the core in the best possible sense of the term with bond engaging audiences in a way that previous singer Dave Evans never had the band rose to the top of the live circuit and went into the studio to record their first LP with X easy beats George Young and Harry van der producing released in early 1975 high voltage was a shot in the arm to the Australian music scene and to promote it the band made their first notorious TV appearance on the client on show count certainly they were account among the pigeons on camp there which was very kind of well you know the whole period at that time the you know mid 70s it was some kind of very glam rock and you know quite Fey and a lot of pop eNOS and ac/dc like stomped in the countdown and and whilst they were kind of that was sort of a bit glam rock a little bit you know that but you know there was this incredible hardrock base to him with enough of sort of just flamboyance to make them Glenn [Music] you've gotta give a CD so much credit for their first TV appearance in Australia and the go on station they don't actually do one of their own songs which no one would have known particularly but a go for baby please don't go wish everyone knew and immediately identify word alright okay we've heard that before we want you understand that the song and they play it really down well and he got this strange vocalist just as a schoolgirl with a guitarist dressed as a schoolboy what the hell is going on here [Music] [Applause] both appearing as a woman or little girls a school girl on the first TV appearance of his perfect example of the anti-establishment kind of stance that that you know ac/dc basically lived for could have also been poking fun a bit at what they saw as perhaps the glamour a rock bands is all a bit gay the choice of song baby please don't go well you know they've never ever shied away from what inspired them to this day they still talk about their love of stuff like Chuck Berry and Little Richard and covering the driving rocker from the 60s by them was you know it's laying down a marker and saying well you know you might be inspired by so wearing makeup we're inspired by this sort of stuff the performance paid off introducing audiences to a CDC's unique brand of back-to-basics rock'n'roll and boosting sales of the band's album high voltage making them one of Australia's most successful young acts we started off at a time when music was very you know very soft and very lightweight you know and we started off playing the total opposite of what was you know the world was you know the media at the time in the world was supposedly into and you know from that we you know I think almost straightaway it was like we captured a lot of a lot of people you know from just word of mouth you know people were into what we were doing straightaway it took off I mean you know radio in Australia at that time was very very supportive and yeah so so in the early days we went from playing to 50 people to being able to play to four five thousand people at festival hall and hoarding pavilion big concerts and they became incredibly big their first album you know for Australia in those days I think we know it sold to us around a thousand copies which was enormous in Australia online they hit the ground running I mean their success was pretty instant in terms of reckless self and they were doing platinum double platinum triple platinum but keep in mind they were doing it with pretty sort of relentlessly white-hot rock and roll records this wasn't the band that just grew gradually and picked up their sales and that this was this was a bad who what platinum from their first outing and have never been anything but capitalizing on their quick success the band returned to the studio to record a follow-up to high voltage the sessions produced a CD C's first bonafide classic it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll it's a long way to the top is the first really strong example of what a band like ac/dc can do that sets them to where they are that other rock bands can't do and therefore don't achieve the same kind of heights and that is as well as the hard driving rockers that they can write they can write anthems [Music] [Music] and to this day when it's a long way to the top he's put on in a bar in a club or anything everyone just goes mental too because it's a great anthem and it's not just about the guitars and the vocals it's got bad pipes for God's sake all over it I mean one other band you know it actually would say let's put bagpipes in a really early track when nobody really knows who we are but BOM played bagpipes and actually said what I can I'll play bagpipes in this it will sound great and it did [Music] such an uplifting chant along anthem it's a real driving port but it's got a bottom line hook it's got a chorus that people remember they knew even then how to write catchy songs and develop them with a real groove and that's the important thing about it's a long way to the top right back then they could do that with so much art so much passion so much belief and make you believe it boosted by the single ac/dc second album TNT saw them return to the top of the charts only 18 months after Bon Scott had joined the band they were now the biggest homegrown act in Australia yet despite their success they refused to bask in its glory and instead continued with a grueling touring schedule that saw them win over audiences countrywide their work ethic was second to none with fantastic I would I would work as often as I can get them doing [Music] [Music] and we've gone up the front and gets jumping around like lunatics and the others looking like they'd just stolen something it was great you know fantastic songs but also I think it was also there was a certain sort of drama with all those songs that really was their stage craft you could they look like they'd lived it and they sounded like they wanted to share was how much affection ac/dc engendered and it was a real and true affection probably because we sensed even then that this was a real commitment to what they were doing there was something about the veracity the honesty and the integrity really of ac/dc the young ac/dc and they couldn't give a attitude to everything but the music they were playing in the fans they were playing into that really endeared them to Australia although the band were endearing themselves through their no-nonsense rock and roll approach the audience for ac/dc shows was not as rough and ready as their music would suggest the audience was primarily young girls so it almost became the case of then much like the Beatles you know go and do a gig and then get pulled off stage and you know the girls were hysterical was was weave mayhem hard hard for anyone now to to appreciate you know how how much it was driven by young girls and it was one of the reasons we had to get out of Australia because that it's not certainly wasn't where the band was that you know they didn't want to be you know sort of in that teeny bopper kind of area despite the unexpected pop audience the band nevertheless became notorious for their offstage antics yet where sex and rock'n'roll were always part of the agenda ac/dc were more clean-living than their reputations suggested whilst most other groups around which were sort of really sort of much heavier in in that area you know ac/dc weren't but there's a lot of sex and they yeah they weren't you know officially known as the CDs for nothing you know I mean there was a lot of that going down and there's a lot of alcohol as far as drugs there was you know nothing really heavy I mean song used to get you know engage in that sort of a little bit more but Angus was very anti-drugs in fact you know smoked them to a degree very anti-drugs Malcolm or Angus apart from a little you know mucking around with no a bit younger I don't want to go to parties get on the red carpet or take drugs or anything like that so that's a good thing not to have if you want to stick around in this guy when born was in the band and an Angus and Malcolm and the rest of them were personifying sex and drugs were born had to do it for everybody else because never the rest of them were doing it in the entire period that you know that I was involved with Angus I never saw him had one drink you know he's he's a tea time but I mean I had heard there were on occasion when he would but no he was total teetotaler as far as I know used to smoke cigarettes heavily drink tea and that was Angus by early 1976 with TNT riding high in the charts ac/dc decided the time was right to move on now the biggest band in Australia it was time to conquer New Territories and after 12 years living on the other side of the world the young brothers prepared to return to their homeland well the whole idea really about the UK was that because of the size of the place the concentration of the of the media you could actually get something going there and very very fast if you start to make it in the UK you start you start to get somewhat of an international vibe and and then you branch out from there but it was crude you know that was that was a strategy to go there and you know get get get it happening in a market that's watched by the rest of the world a lot of Australian bands toyed with international success in other words you know popped over for a three-month stint or you know put their toe in the water you know I think for a band to succeed on a global scale you have to think I'm a total scale and you can't just pop over for a couple of promo trips here and there you've gotta do the hard yards when a territory is taking off man you've got to be that you got to play those festivals you got to be on those TV shows got to be in people's faces and available in April 1976 the band left Australia and relocated to London yet the music scene that greeted them when they arrived was very different to those there dominated in sydney and melbourne punk rock was about to explode in Britain but rather than distance themselves from it the band embraced it DC came over to the UK in 1976 the first gig was in Hammersmith at the Red Cow and I was privileged to be there to see their first ever gig and they came over at a time when punk was just starting to really take off and in America The Ramones have suddenly come through with very much a one two three four straight down the line rock'n'roll approach DC fitted everything because their music was so much about the streets it came off the street it came out of the alleyways he came out of gangs so they finished straight into the environment without even meaning to the whole idea about ac/dc being a punk band was primarily generated by the UK record company in an attempt there it's just a feeble marketing ploy to kind of bollocks that you get from a record company time and time again however it's interesting that they did it because there are areas of what ac/dc did and what they stood for and how they did it that do link them with whatever Punk felt he was standing for they were the man facing down Authority and that's very Punk in itself the whole idea that punk was taking rock and roll back to its primal self it was something ac/dc it had done when they started out they've always been a rock and roll band - who pray hard rock and there is an argument that all punk was was was heavy rock played badly and some blokes shouting over the top instead of somebody singing over the top so there are links cultural sociological musical links and ACDC I think being ac/dc would have just embraced whoever at the time because that's what they were like in a matter of months the band established themselves in the UK with the same determined work ethic that had seen them prosper back in Australia one of the reasons why they broke through relatively quickly had something to do with where they came from like in us in Australia it was not uncommon for them to drive between Sydney and Melbourne to do a couple of gigs get in the van sleep overnight do it in other words you went out and you did first distances and you work incredibly hard so they'd be in London at like their house in London and yeah their agency would would ring them yeah four o'clock in the afternoon or something say look guys we've got this gig tonight in Oxford and none of our bands will even touch it no one would dream dream of driving that far on this sort of short notice and I suppose you guys to do it in bono to table yeah how far is it oh yeah you be there in a couple of hours but oh yeah this was our you know was that like our make a break when we first come here so we had to make a go of it paid you know we had a lot of debt and stuff so you know we really had to come here and try and you know break into you know the music scene of the world from here so really here we were just we were discovered from here we're actually the first time we ever had like the bomb decided to get a tube to the geek in a car so he came along and all that with all of the fans basically off the train and when he got here he couldn't get in so he was walking up and down the front and we had some people taking a photo out in front of the Hammond because it's the first time we've had an ID in print and they took a photo that I know what walking with rather is born with his fastest tryna get in bond had become the life and soul of ac/dc a wayward rogue who charmed the British audience in much the same way as he had back in Australia and on the band's third album dirty deeds done dirt cheap he also showed that he was developing as a unique lyricist he was continually out there lovable you know characters beautiful you know probably the best rock-and-roll poet when one of them s rockin all parts of all time I just think he his lyrics just resonate with people Street poetry you know he's just the best Bon Scott of the lyricist was remarkable the dirty deeds done dirt cheap open as she sums it up maybe better than almost anything else there is this feeling that bond came to represent what it was like to be an Australian more than almost any other songwriter of the period [Music] [Music] jailbreak this is my personal fury offering positiveness as the alternative australian national anthem was this not a penal colony and what we all have to do as well as sign that treaty is we you know black fellas white fellas alike I've got to break those chains you know [Music] not certain in writing it bomb would have really been thinking too much of a you know an anti-establishment national anthem from Australia because he's from Scotland but it's the single man against authority it's an anti-authoritarian kind of thing that's the whole image to bond conveys superb lead jailbreak by early 1976 ac/dc had made a significant impact in the UK and as they wowed British audiences on a nightly basis the band themselves became more honed I could just see them yeah sort of starting to really you know grow and and you know the teenage thing when didn't exist in England you know they started to play to rock rock audiences and that was great so it allowed them to evolve further into that you know kind of rock and roll band you know sort of that they became so yeah they matured and they could see that yeah they could see that it given you know the progress continuing that eventually they were going to go all the way going all the way meant one thing crack in the u.s. in July 1977 the band once again left one territory to go and conquer another HDC when they eventually got out there wouldn't have found the Turing the vast touring that you have to do and what you have to remember is they even compared with whatever kind of a hefty work schedule a band might have to undertake today back in the 70s when ac/dc were going out with some of the greats you know with like Aerosmith UFO and thinks I am the tours were even longer the methods of transport were more grueling it was a slog but they've never been afraid to push themselves they'd have just tackled it head-on there was no ego there which is what seems to blight most British bands that go over there they think they're superstars already and then don't want to put the working ac/dc met every challenge head-on come on let's do this we're not gonna let them beat us it goes back to the whole you know us against the world attitude that drove them on from day one but Amer would prove a tougher market to crack than Australia or the UK returning to England in 1978 the band recorded the seminal power rage album and although it remains one of their most popular LPS it's rough edges were seen as too abrasive for us Radio George Young and Harry van der had successfully produced every ac/dc album so far yet it was now felt that fresh talent was required to take the band to the very top ends a young producer mutts Lang parachutes are very interesting outlets Keith Richards favorite ac/dc em and he's accused ac/dc back if the last album with Mandarin young and I know for a fact that one member of ac/dc who shall remain bong Scott wanted a new producer he felt that van joon-young couldn't take ac/dc as a whole any further bond felt that was a new producer he could open up his environment he'd be encouraged to do so and by doing that the others would come along with him the group needed to go to the next level production wire and Atlantic Records basically you know said insisted on producer chain I was put in a situation where I had to find a new another producer for them very fast and I just happened to be living with Matt Lang and I bitterly put the phone down from milk when I turned red and Martin said you've got to make this written next ac/dc record with mutts Lang on board the band recorded their landmark highway to hell album their strongest record yet on its release it broke into the u.s. chart and it would later be widely hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time yet the title track about the band's grueling life on the road would prove eerily prophetic for bond Scott highway to hell took HDC to another level in terms of sound and scepters style in most in terms of performance somehow bond was a man reborn because you listened to him on that album and he has the room to do things he sounds stronger than he didn't at any of the other hours [Music] [Applause] [Music] hye-won harrison album is full of rice of course it is the high water Hellas lanthum has a song of itself and in itself and by itself has stood the test of time so magnificent EES almost become the Bon Scott era anthem and quite rightly so because it does speak about so many different levels you can talk about it as that life on the road is a highway to hell it was supposed to be written about the fact that there was a pub at the bottom of a road in Australia that Bond used to go to quite a lot and it was dangerously placed because when he crossed the road traffic would come from a blind spot and people got killed there so it's got all those sort of connotations and of course the other thing about I'm going down all the way because of my lifestyle look at the way it is and the course that sadly became a commenting upon himself later on but I think it's such a tremendous anthem not just musically not just the group than lyrics [Music] [Applause] [Music] if you look at highway to hell and it you know the subject matter if you know like the dreariness of life on the road hey it's a pity really for born in a way because that dreariness was helped to be removed in favor of like superstardom you know and unfortunately for him you know it was snatched away from him you know the chance to taste that before before he before he got you know what was a deserved chance because he you know along with the rest of the band had been pivotal and getting them to that point now firmly established in America the band continued touring across the US and Europe to huge audiences yet bon Scott's rock-and-roll lifestyle was beginning to take its toll one was just out there you know he was just getting shit-faced every night getting into trouble making yeah girls pregnant you just get phone calls that you know to say you know it's such an such a hospital you know we've got Bon Scott yeah goodness you're number you know and you know you'd go there and you know he'd be able to take him too many pills or yeah got into a fight okay yes this just it was just good he was continually out there I mean he used to say that he didn't want to live beyond I forget what it was 40 or something but I don't think anyone really felt that he was in danger of you know doing himself in yeah through what he was doing but he was on February the 19th 1980 just before he was about to commence work on a CDC's follow up to highway to hell Bon Scott passed out during a bout of heavy drinking left overnight in a friend's car in the morning he was discovered lifeless and was pronounced dead on his arrival at King's College Hospital the official cause was listed by the coroner as death by misadventure I was just in an elevator in a building in North Sydney and someone just came up to me and told me and you know was I was just totally shocked and you know just couldn't below and this total disbelief really it was just kind of weird hearing it from this person that I thought I barely knew and and yeah just just disbelief really the band was shell-shocked yet after briefly considering quitting with the blessing of bombs mother they decided to press on after holding several auditions they chose to recruit Brian Johnson from the British rock band Jordie as their new lead singer it would be the greatest trial that ac/dc had faced losing the figure who had given the group so much personality and introducing a new frontman just as they were looking to truly crack America I think probably the hardest with when bond Scott I think that was have died I think that was probably the hardest thing because we didn't know whether we continued as a band and so that was that was what I would say would be the higher things bond was one of the greatest rock and roll front men that the world has ever seen that the Brian Johnson managed to come in and and he didn't try to replace him he was his own man he tried to fit in with what they did but not copy bomb and he's still there rocking out with them today his testament to the band what they're about to Brian and to the memory of bond himself I think if they've been an even bigger band and bonds God had died it would have been harder the fact that they were only just starting to really crack it and getting a big fan base it was easier for Brian Johnson to come in I'm sure there's millions of people who listen to ac/dc around the world now and don't even know or remember Bon Scott tragically you know Bond's death added another layer to the whole saga in hindsight probably sounds foolish to say that certainly he's you know it was an incredible loss to the band but the way that they bounced back in in record time you know within weeks they recorded this album that went on to become the biggest to Victoria that album was back in black and it was a phenomenon released in July 1980 it not only fully broke the band in America but broke sales records world the second best-selling album of all time with to date more than 49 million copies sold it was dedicated to Bon Scott but it was also the successful introduction of Brian Johnson whose voice made the band's appeal even greater back in black is a remarkable album it's full of wonderful songs he does deserve to be as huge as it was and they found him Brown Johnson the perfect non replacement he was the new vocalist he wasn't the new Bon Scott and I know they actually auditioned two or three people are very close and personality and styled upon and decided they're too close we don't want someone just to come in and replace him we want someone very different and he listens to the record and it is a different record he still got that the ac/dc groove but Brown Johnson's vocals are very different and some of the songs like hells bells somehow you can't imagine that being part of the Bon Scott era [Music] when they did recruit Brian the planets were aligned there is no question about that Brian was pretty much the way particularly Americans saw a Roxy you know the way they thought of rock singers should being away Brian for an international audience possibly just Jill just that little bit that have you know more more effectively than bond might Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] only tribute ac/dc would've paid to bomb snopp would have been fitting some of that sort of band and they would have made sure it was fitting I think some one of the sad things at the time was a DC got brown johnson into the band so quickly people thought they didn't care I think that's far from the truth and I think you can tell I'm back in black itself how much the song meant to them as much as it did to the audience as being a tribute to bond it is a fitting tribute but I feel that any song they would have written about bond would have been a fitting tribute they would have made sure [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's no doubt that one of the reasons back and luck is so big is because the sound is so huge it's epic it's a massive record not only in terms of its sales learning in terms of the great songs but in terms of the way it sounds it still sounds enormous and it was Mutt Lange for me getting to grips with the band on the second time he'd worked with him first time okay feeling my way a little bit so let's see how things go second was right let's go out and make the great rock album the ultimate rock album and he did it with them absolutely did it with them because it does sound like it could have been a Led Zeppelin record it could have been a Black Sabbath record were at their pump and their prime it could have been any of those great bands making an ultimate record and he set out to do that with them and did it having now established themselves as one of the biggest rock acts in history ac/dc looked to build on the success of back in black yet despite the strong follow-up for those about to rock the band struggled to regain form in the 1980s across the decade that continued to draw huge audiences to their live shows but from 1983 s flick of the switch that began to be criticized for being musically unadventurous something that the band themselves acknowledged there's this great story this lovely attic that I believe it's true and I've used that many a time and this is sort of about mid mid career and there's an interview being done by I think was a young woman as I recall and she was from college newspaper or college radio or something like that and she's interviewing Angus and she gets all sort of if she thinks she thinks she's got him here this is so what do you say Angus all mr. young probably about those people who say that you've made 13 albums and they're all sounded the same true his little shoulders back and he puffed out his wheat wheat Chester he says it's a dirty rotten lie we've made 14 outfits and they all set on the same yet the young brothers were struggling to come up with the kind of strong songs that have made their name and throughout the decades sales of ac/dc albums dropped significantly people always look for the reasons of a bands decline but I think there's always a period of purple patch for bands of white great songs they're going through this men which drives them forward the urge to succeed the urge to win people over and then maybe it dries up a little bit so ac/dc you know different to anybody else you look at the band like the Rolling Stones how many times have they made it out was one or two good songs I love the filler it's happened to everybody DC was just no different to everyone else people have tried to put the finger on the fact that they didn't work with Muk Lang after for those about to wrong maybe that's the reason maybe it isn't I just think their time for writing that collection of great songs had run out for the moment although they did get it back thankfully having set themselves up as you're gonna be massive with back in black and then to some extent with with with those about to rock you know they did take a couple of hits commercially they weren't as big as they had been but there was no let-up in the quality of the live shows and to be honest I mean you know hindsight to these is suggests that flicking the switch is a very good record just doesn't happen to sound very commercial fry on the wall um no fan and blow up your video there were signs that they were getting things back on track of course at the same time all this coincided with Malcolm's alcohol problems Simon Wright left the band you know they have to get another drummer in so it was it was probably not the best decade they might have started it with an album which went on to become the second great biggest selling album full time but you use the 80s Oh probably glad when when the 80s were over I would have thought in 1990 the band's fortunes changed with the release of the album the razor's edge they returned to the global popularity of their glory years with its opening anthem thunderstruck providing them with an international hit single the band had stuck to their classic rock roots but reshaped their sound for a modern audience the razor's edge very interesting album and the choice produces very interesting as well they go for Bruce Fairburn a man who's known for Bon Jovi and Aerosmith and in terms of production it's certainly the slickest record that they've ever made and I think perhaps a good choice by them because I think they'd had looked back at the 80s and thought we can't go through that again ac/dc were in a stage in their career by the beginning of the 90s just around the time on ground was happening where they needed an infusion of something to prove to themselves more than anything else that they had a fanbase that was going to grow that they were going to appeal to the kids coming through as much as they were to the people who were there in the 1970s and therefore the roses Asia in particular Thunder shock was massively important to them thunderstruck became a new anthem Bruce Fairburn did that she perv German raises itself in particularly thunderstruck because he understands commerciality or understood commerciality sat in a longer with us but he'd work with bands like Bon Jovi and understood what it took to get a song from being a really good rock song into a really good mass-market song and he did that with thunderstruck it's full of those motifs and moments he's got some great angus guitars got some great sing-along moments and a child's brian johnson sounds like Tina Turner from the Ike and Tina Turner days he's got that sort of real vibe about it it's got a groove that CCDC but has been expanded in a different way to perhaps Mutt Lange would have done [Applause] [Music] the fact is there was a huge success the album another massive success and he basically built on what they're done with like the video they headlined Donington and sort of set themselves up for the 90s sort of very nicely obviously their work rate that slowed down considerably by this point certainly if you look at what happened in the first ten years of their existence to sort of that point but yeah they've got themselves back into a very good position and it was all really by taking a gamble by gambling on Bruce Fairburn on gambling on changing their sound someone with only two new releases in the next ten years 1995's ballbreaker in 2000 stiff-upper-lip ac/dc may not have been as prolific as they had been but their sellout World Tour still allowed fans to see one of the greatest shows on earth and attitudes towards them changed over time where once they were dismissed as rock dinosaurs they were now being hailed as living legends with a unique sound all of their own there was a point definitely when ac/dc got a lot of criticism from people because they've repeated the same thing over and over again they only know how to write one song there's one way of doing things you always know an ac/dc song because of the sound and really it's formulaic and boring and dull isn't it and then suddenly people realize it's not formula its groove it's about rock and roll and to be honest no one does what they do better and suddenly people not just accepted embraced it they wanted ac/dc to be that band they didn't want AC DC to go into reggae electronica dance music to try different things the way the stones have done for instance they wanted DC to be who they are and they became not establishment but a safe band the people felt comforted they're still there and they're still making albums which have that ac/dc sound because no one wants anything different mm-hmm I always liked things and you know you can type your tune it you know you've got to have that you've gotta have that that ingredient you've got to have you know tracks I think that you know instantly instantly grab you and it's also it's got a sound like ac/dc and you know fear for the people who do know your zation tissue you want them to be able to say oh that's satiation you know no one else there is an ac/dc sound it existed with the who that existed with it exists with the Rolling Stones that's sort of the ability to just plug in and become who you are to the point where nobody could even dream of imitating or you're copying or anything else that's the case with ac/dc and that comes with performing for like you know we're looking with almost 40 years now picking up new generations of fans as the world moved into a new century the band remained quiet for the best part of a decade and then in 2008 a new album finally emerged black ice going to number one in over 29 countries it once again bought ac/dc back to the very height of their popularity they were in a position now where they could take quite a lot of time I mean so five years between races ht2 ballbreaker five years then between ballbreaker and and stiff-upper-lip partly because their tours were so long partly because they were in a position that you know they could do that and their ages they can't keep that work rate up the eight or nine years between stiff-upper-lip and black ice live most people to believe though we're never gonna see another ac/dc album the game and there are all sorts of rumors and stuff like that of course when they did get that ac/dc album Wow it's almost as if having weathered the storm of the 80s it seems that you know they might have taken two decades to do it but they gradually were working their way back to the very pinnacle that they had once achieved with back in black with black lights now in their fifth decade as a band ac/dc move incessantly onwards unfazed by criticism unaffected by fashion the determination of the band and Angus and Malcolm young in particular to keep ac/dc true to its original philosophy of hard-hitting rock and roll has meant that they are unrivaled musical legends there is something that drives them on it's the belief in the music that inspired them it's the belief in themselves no matter how many times people might tell them that they're worthless they mean nothing they're wrong they're like we will do what we do the way we do it and at the end of the day you have to admire that attitude even more so when they prove themselves right time and time again well we've outlived quite a few badges we're still playing what we always did [Music] and that's what they're all gonna hear today with almost 40 years worth of classic tracks to draw from a CD C's live show has grown into an unparalleled spectacle from their roots on the Australian pub circuit to their current stadium and arena tours the band's determination to bring their fans a world-class show has never wavered I always think a great band is somebody who could walk into a room pick up an audience and take them with them and I think ac/dc have always done that you can bet your bottom dollar that it's going to be a red-hot sure and when I see an ac/dc concert I have this huge smile on my face it is such a joyous experience from Angus dropping his decks to the big inflatables to the the Pyrus I mean they really put on a great show it's a guaranteed good night out it's a case of you can't go on and rest on your laurels you've got to get on there and show them yet again your ISM you're better than what you were four years four years ago I think they see they see every gig that though even if it's four months in picture it makes the kids feel like it's the first one with the dog on and you know it's like we're just keen and you guys then I think ac/dc have transcended generations in the same way as the stones have because they've continued playing live people have gone and people have come but the basis of the band is still there ACDC our eternal because and this was evident on the black eye store where I swear a third to a half of the audience seemed to be under em and there's three in there with the little you know earlier the devil's horn caps on and all that and you notice that these kids are there because their big brother or their father has turned him on to ac/dc and there's nothing surer than the fact that they will do the same now I don't know how long these wiry little guys can stay on their feet and keep doing it but I couldn't tell you for as long as they do keep doing it they're going to have an audience through their continual belief that they should remain true to themselves ac/dc have survived lineup changes shifts in culture from the death of an iconic frontman it may have been a long way to the top but to remain there for so many years proves that ac/dc of the greatest rock band the world has ever seen in sticking to their guns ac/dc occupy a special place in rock friends hearts they never chased any trends trends come and go no no one interested in their everything about them is true to themselves and their fans and their music it's honest hard-working rock and roll music from a bunch of honest hard-working working-class rock and rollers [Music] I've never sensed in all the years I think that I've known them the slightest bit of pretension about them the trappings of their extraordinary fame that doesn't appear to have had much impact upon them whatsoever they do what they do and you get the feeling that all will be right with the world as long as they keep on doing what they do I guess would you like this anything else you son just thanks to everyone and Aniki pardon rock and roll and thank you very much thanks [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 65min 15sec (3915 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 15 2018