AC/DC

This article is about the band from Australia. For other uses, see AC/DC (disambiguation).

AC/DC
Origin	Sydney, Australia
Years active	1973 — Present
Members	Angus Young Malcolm Young Brian Johnson Cliff Williams Phil Rudd
Past members	Bon Scott Deceased Dave Evans Mark Evans Simon Wright Chris Slade Larry Van Kriedt Colin Burgess Rob Bailey Peter Clack George Young Tony Currenti Paul Matters Ron Carpentar Stevie Young Russel Coleman Bruce Houwe Paul Greg Neil Smith Noel Taylor

AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and his brother, lead guitarist Angus Young. The band has sold over 150 million albums worldwide and over 68 million albums in the United States, making them one of the most successful hard rock acts ever. Their 1980 album Back in Black has sold 42 million units worldwide (21 million in the US alone) and is the second highest selling album of all time and the biggest selling album by any band. In its recording career, the band has had two distinctive lead singers, and fans tend to divide its history into the 'Bon Scott era' (1974-80), and the 'Brian Johnson era' (1980-present).

Although the group is generally considered to be a pioneer of Hard rock and Heavy metal music (they are ranked number 4 on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'), the members have always referred to their music as Rock 'n' roll.

Overall, AC/DC are the most successful and well-known band to originate from Australia. In 2005 the band finished second in a list of highest-earning entertainers from Australia – trailing only The Wiggles – despite neither releasing an album nor touring that year.

History

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, brothers Angus, Malcolm and George Young moved, along with their family to Sydney, Australia when the boys were still young children. George began playing guitar first and became a member of Australia's most successful band during the 1960s, The Easybeats. They were the first local rock act to score an international hit ("Friday On My Mind" in 1966). Malcolm and Angus soon followed in his footsteps. Malcolm first played with a Newcastle, New South Wales band called The Velvet Underground (not to be confused with the New York based Velvet Underground which included member Lou Reed).

Early years

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One of AC/DC's lineups in 1973: Evans, Bailey, M. Young, Clack and A. Young.

In November 1973, Malcolm Young started AC/DC, in which he played rhythm guitar and Angus played lead guitar. They recruited drummer Colin Burgess (ex-The Masters Apprentices), bassist Larry Van Kriedt, and vocalist Dave Evans. They originally intended to have a keyboardist, but soon dropped the idea. They played their first gig at a club in Sydney, Australia on New Year’s Eve, 1973.

The early lineups of the band changed often. Colin Burgess was sacked after passing out on stage (reportedly because someone spiked his drink), and a number of different bassists and drummers like Phil Rudd on drums, Mark Evans on bass, Simon Wright on drums, Cliff Williams on bass, and Chris Slade on drums passed through the band over the next year, some lasting only a few weeks.

Another vital innovation was Angus Young's adoption of his now-famous school uniform as a regular stage outfit; the original was reputedly Angus' real uniform from his secondary school, Ashfield Boys High School, in Sydney. This idea was suggested by the Young brothers' sister, Margaret.

In September 1974, after skipping a gig, Dave Evans, was replaced by the band's chauffeur, the charismatic singer Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott, former lead vocalist with The Spektors (1964-66), The Valentines (1966-70) and Fraternity (1970-73). This signified the beginning of real success. With Evans, they had recorded one single, "Can I Sit Next To You"/"Rockin' In The Parlour". "Can I Sit Next To You" was eventually recorded with Bon Scott under the title "Can I Sit Next To You Girl".

By early 1975, the line-up had stabilised around Scott, the Young brothers, Mark Evans (bass) and Phil Rudd (drums), and an Australian-only album High Voltage had been released. Between 1974 and 1978, aided by regular appearances on the nationally-broadcast TV pop music show, Molly Meldrum's Countdown, AC/DC became one of the most popular and successful acts in Australia, scoring a string of hit albums and singles including their perennial rock anthem "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)", included on their second album T.N.T. which again was only released in Australia and New Zealand.

Onto the international stage (1976-1978)

AC/DC signed an international deal with Atlantic Records. They worked all over the UK and Europe to establish themselves, touring almost constantly and gaining invaluable experience on the stadium circuit supporting the top hard-rock acts of the day including Alice Cooper, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Foreigner, Thin Lizzy, and The Who.

A compilation of tracks from the Australian LPs High Voltage and T.N.T. was released by Atlantic in 1976. The track selection of this album, the High Voltage most fans are more familiar with, was in fact weighted towards the band's more recent T.N.T.. Their next album, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, was released in the same year. Like High Voltage, this album exists in both Australian-only and international versions, and track listings varied worldwide: like its predecessor, the international version of the album was a compilation of tracks from the band's existing Australian LPs. The original Australian version includes their popular song Jailbreak, now more readily available on the 1984 compilation EP '74 Jailbreak and the 1991 Live album. Dirty Deeds didn't reach the US until 1981 (after Bon Scott's death!), when AC/DC were at the peak of their popularity. After the recording of 1977's Let There Be Rock, bassist Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams, who thereafter also shared background vocal duties with Malcom Young.

AC/DC was first played in America on AM 600 WTAC in Flint, Michigan. The station manager's manager and legendary promoter "Peter C" Cavanaugh, who had also introduced The Who to America, booked the band to play Flint's Capitol Theater in the Fall of 1977. The opening act was The MC5 who were briefly reunited and agreed to play the event. AC/DC opened with Live Wire and closed with It's a Long Way to The Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll). The entire event is chronicled in Cavanaugh's book

The band were tagged as a punk rock band by the British press, but they certainly survived the punk upheavals of 1976 and 1978. Also, they gained a cult following in UK and Angus Young became notorious for mooning the audience. Their hard rock sound and Scott's image have been a significant influence for the frontman of the punk band Sex Pistols, lead singer Johnny Rotten.

Highway to Hell (1979)

It was their sixth album, Highway To Hell, produced by Mutt Lange and released in 1979, that propelled them into the top ranks of hard rock acts; its anthemic title track is still a radio staple and is still widely popular in the U.S. This album was the first album not produced by Harry Vanda and George Young and the last to feature Bon Scott on vocals.

Bon Scott's death

Bon Scott died on 19 February 1980. He passed out after a night of routine partying in London, and was left in a car owned by an acquaintance named Alistair Kinnear. Sometime the next day, Bon was found unconscious by Kinnear and immediately rushed to the King's College hospital in Camberwell, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. The official cause of death was listed as "Acute alcohol poisoning" and "Death by Misadventure", although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration of vomit as the cause. There are many inconsistencies in the official story, which in recent years have led to many conspiracy theories, many involving heroin overdoses. Some think it was murder, and that Bon Scott was killed by fumes from the exhaust being redistributed into the car, and some think Kinnear didn't even exist. . It should be noted, however, that Bon was asthmatic and the temperature was below freezing that morning.

The band members considered quitting, but they decided Bon would have wanted AC/DC to continue. Shortly after, the band had lined up various candidates. Among them were ex-Back Street Crawler vocalist Terry Slesser and ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson. With regard to Brian Johnson, Angus Young says: "I remember Bon playing me Little Richard and then telling me the story of when he saw Brian singing. And he says about that night, 'there's this guy up there screaming at the top of his lungs and then the next thing you know he hits the deck. He's on the floor, rolling around and screaming. I thought it was great, and then to top it off - you couldn't get a better encore - they came in and wheeled the guy off!'". Johnson was diagnosed with appendicitis later that night. At the AC/DC audition Johnson sang two songs: "Whole Lotta Rosie" (from Let There Be Rock) and "Nutbush City Limits" (Ike & Tina Turner). A few days later, the band told Johnson that he would be the new vocalist of AC/DC.

Back in Black and later albums (1980-present)

With Johnson, they completed the song-writing that was started while Bon Scott was still alive and began recording Back in Black, also produced by Lange. This became their biggest-selling album, a hard-rock landmark. Among the album's hits, the title track, an unstated tribute to Scott, and "You Shook Me All Night Long", are quintessential AC/DC: pounding guitars, start-stop rhythms, and the vocal style one critic affectionately described as "crotch on barbed wire". The follow-up album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, released in 1981, also sold very well and was well received by critics.

The band split with Lange for their self-produced 1983 album, Flick of the Switch. Amid rumours of alcoholism and drug-induced paranoia, drummer Phil Rudd left after personal differences with Malcolm Young. Rudd was replaced by Simon Wright formerly of Tytan, after the band held an anonymous audition. With the new lineup they recorded the less successful Fly on the Wall, produced by the Young brothers, in 1985. An ambitious series of music videos featuring the band at a bar playing five of the album's ten songs and supplemented by a variety of goings-on, including an animated fly, was also released.

In 1986, the group returned to the charts with the title track from Who Made Who, the soundtrack to Stephen King's film Maximum Overdrive. The album also included two new instrumentals along with previous hits. In February 1988 AC/DC were inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame. The next album, Blow Up Your Video (1988) saw them reunited with their original producers, Harry Vanda and George Young. It had better sales than the band's two previous albums, scoring a British Top 20 single with "Heatseeker".

Following Blow Up Your Video, Wright left the group and was replaced by session veteran Chris Slade. Johnson was unavailable for several months and the Young brothers wrote the songs for the next record themselves, as they would do for all subsequent releases. The new album would be produced by Bruce Fairbairn who had worked previously with Bryan Adams and Bon Jovi. Released in 1990, The Razors Edge was a big comeback for the band and included hits "Thunderstruck" and "Moneytalks". The album went multiplatinum and went into the top ten in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

By 1994, a sober Rudd had returned. The departure of Chris Slade was, however, amicable and mainly due to the band's strong wish to return with Rudd. According to Angus Young, Slade was the best musician in AC/DC, but the wish to regroup with Rudd was stronger. With the 1980–1983 lineup back, the group recorded Ballbreaker (1995) with hip hop and heavy metal producer Rick Rubin and Stiff Upper Lip (2000).

In 2002, Q magazine put AC/DC at the very top of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die" list. AC/DC have entered into a long-term, multi-album deal for new recordings, which will be released through Epic Records.

In 2003, Epic Records/Legacy Recordings released newly remastered AC/DC albums. These albums are a part of AC/DC's Remasters series. This included all the albums, except Ballbreaker and Stiff Upper Lip. Ballbreaker was rereleased in 2005, and Stiff Upper Lip will be rereleased in 2010.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

During their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2003, AC/DC performed "Highway To Hell" and "You Shook Me All Night Long" with guest vocals by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, who inducted the band into the hall."AC/DC became the litmus test of what rock does," Tyler said."Does it make you clench your fist when you sing along? Does it scare your parents to hell, and piss of the neighbors? Does it make you dance so close to the fire that you burn your feet--and still don't give a rat's ass? Does it make you want to stand up and scream for something that you're not even sure of yet? Does it make you want to boil your sneakers, and make soup outta your girlfriend's panties?. If it doesn't, then it ain't AC/DC." Alongside the band were two of Scott's nephews. In a brief acceptance speech, the band thanked their fans for their support. Brian Johnson quoted the band's 1977 song "Let There Be Rock," written by Bon Scott. "'In the beginning, back in 1955, man didn't know about the rock 'n roll show and all that jive. The white man had the schmaltz, the black man had the blues, but no one knew what they was gonna do, but Tchaikovsky had the news, he said, let there be rock,'" Johnson said. "Bon Scott wrote that. And it's a real privilege to accept these awards tonight."

Recent Events

In May 2003, Malcolm Young accepted the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Service to Australian Music and paid special tribute to Bon Scott. That same year, the Recording Industry Association of America upgraded the group's US sales figures, increasing their cumulative sales from 46.5 million to 63 million, making AC/DC the fifth-best-selling band in US music history, behind The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the Eagles. The RIAA also certified the classic Back in Black album as double diamond (20,000,000) US sales, making it the sixth-best-selling U.S. album in history. As of 2005, the album has sold 21 million copies, moving it into fifth place.

On July 30 of the same year, the band gave a performance with the Rolling Stones at Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. Held before an audience of 500,000, the concert was held to help the city overcome the effects of the 2003 SARS epidemic.

Johnson has long been working on a musical version of Helen of Troy; he was inspired to do so after seeing Cats and describing it as 'fucking shit, wrist-cuttingly bad'.

On 1 October 2004 Melbourne's road Corporation Lane was officially renamed "ACDC Lane" in honour of the band (street names in the City of Melbourne cannot contain the "/" character). It is near Swanston Street, the location where, on the back of a truck, the band recorded their video for the 1975 hit "It's a Long Way to the Top". (Two members of the band were born in Melbourne.) There is another street named after the band in Leganés, Spain (near Madrid) called 'Calle de AC/DC', close to other streets named after Iron Maiden and Rosendo, Spanish hard rock legend.

In March, 2005, an official two-disc DVD set containing music videos, live clips and promotional videos called Family Jewels was released. The first disc is from the Bon Scott era (with live videos shot ten days before his death), and the second disc is from the Brian Johnson era.

AC/DC are currently working on a new studio album, but as of now, no release date has been set. In a 2005 interview with Brian Johnson, he has confirmed that the band does not know where the album will be recorded and finished. Also during the year, it was announced that there was a possibility the next release could be a double album. In a recent interview (April 2006) with Guitarist magazine, Malcolm Young stated, "The band is currently recording and writing material for the eagerly anticipated next album."

Name

It has been said by Angus and Malcolm that the name's origins are from the back of their sister Margaret Young's sewing machine. In fact, the acronym "AC/DC" stands for "Alternating Current/Direct Current" which is used as an abbreviation to show that a given device that can run on either type of electrical current. In any event, the Young brothers liked the way that this name symbolized the band's raw energy and power-driven performances so the name stuck.

It's also been said that the band was initially unaware of the bisexual connotation of the term and that public response finally brought it to their attention. Supposedly, this public perception was exacerbated by their early "glam rock" image, which included satin jumpsuits (common rock attire in the early 1970s) and other costumes including Angus' schoolboy persona. Many bands at the time, however, adopted a deliberately theatrical and androgynous look, including two of Malcolm's heroes: The Rolling Stones and Marc Bolan.

Some religious figures have suggested that the name stood for "Anti-Christ/Devil's Children", "After Christ /Devil Comes" or "Anti Christ / Death to Christ"; the rumour has long persisted among critics who, already disliking the band's image, use it to paint the band as Satanists. The band has stated this is not true and these accusations are laughed at (Malcolm adding, "Me mum would kill me for that!"). This was also denied stating publicly, "We write songs like this to make a point and to give the listeners a picture in their minds." For example, the band states that Highway to Hell was written about touring on the roads of America, before they were highly popular.

The name AC/DC is pronounced one letter at a time, although the band is nicknamed by its Australian fans as "Acca Dacca", a parody of the AC/DC name. There is also a popular Canadian AC/DC tribute band known as BC/DC, after the province of British Columbia.

Band Members

See Also: Minor members of AC/DC.

Discography

Main article: AC/DC discography

Studio albums

Title	Release date	Label	Producer	Notes
High Voltage	February 1975	Albert	Vanda / Young	Australian release
T.N.T.	December 1975	Albert	Vanda / Young	Australian release
High Voltage	May 1976	Albert	Vanda / Young	International compilation
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	September 1976	Albert	Vanda / Young	Australian release
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap	November 1976	Albert	Vanda / Young	International release
Let There Be Rock	March 1977	Atlantic	Vanda / Young	Australian release
Let There Be Rock	June 1977	Atlantic	Vanda / Young	International release
Powerage	May 1978	Atlantic	Vanda / Young / Young	Cliff Williams' first album
Highway To Hell	July 1979	Atlantic	Robert Lange	Bon Scott's last album
Back in Black	July 1980	Atlantic / ATCO	Robert Lange	Brian Johnson's first album
For Those About to Rock	November 1981	Atlantic	Robert Lange
Flick of the Switch	April 1983	Atlantic	AC/DC
'74 Jailbreak	October 1984	ATCO	Vanda / Young	Compilation
Fly on the Wall	June 1985	Atlantic	Young / Young
Who Made Who	May 1986	Atlantic	Vanda / Young / Lange	Maximum Overdrive soundtrack
Blow Up Your Video	January 1988	Epic	Vanda / Young
The Razor's Edge	September 1990	Atlantic	Bruce Fairbairn	Chris Slade's first album
Ballbreaker	September 1995	Elektra	Rick Rubin / Mike Fraser	Phil Rudd's return
Volts	November 1997	Eastwest	George Young	Part of Bonfire
Stiff Upper Lip	February 2000	EMI	George Young

Live albums

Title	Release date	Label	Producer
If You Want Blood You've Got It	October 1978	Atlantic / ATCO	Vanda / Young
Live	October 1992	Epic	Vanda / Young
Live: 2 CD Collector's Edition	October 1992	Epic	Vanda / Young
Live from the Atlantic Studios	November 1997	Eastwest	George Young
Let There Be Rock: The Movie	November 1997	Eastwest	Tony Platt

Videography

• 1980: AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
• 1985: Fly on the Wall
• 1986: Who Made Who
• 1989: AC/DC (released only in Australia)
• 1991: Clipped
• 1991: Live at Donington
• 1993: For Those About to Rock We Salute You
• 1996: No Bull
• 2001: Stiff Upper Lip Live
• 2003: Live '77 (released only in Japan)
• 2004: Toronto Rocks
• 2005: Family Jewels

Influences and tributes

Influence on rock music and other artists

AC/DC has been mentioned by many contemporary and later hard rock, heavy metal (although they distanced themselves from this genre), and progressive rock bands as an influence, including Accept, Anthrax, Bon Jovi, Buckcherry, The Darkness, Def Leppard, Dio, Dokken, Dream Theater, Exodus, Faster Pussycat, Iron Maiden, Great White, Guns N' Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Journey, Megadeth, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Poison, Ratt, Rhino Bucket, Saxon, Scorpions, Skid Row, Supagroup, Twisted Sister, UFO, Van Halen, Whitesnake, Wolfmother and Y&T.

Many artists within the punk rock, hardcore punk, grunge, garage rock and alternative rock movements have also cited AC/DC as an influence. Whilst AC/DC themselves were initially critical of the British punk movement of the late 1970s, many artists within the scene drew on AC/DC's energetic, basic and (as some may argue) anti-commercialist approach to rock music.

AC/DC's legacy on the Australian music scene should not be underestimated. Virtually every Australian rock band to emerge since the mid 1970s has been influenced by AC/DC, including their 'contemporaries' within the Australian pub rock movement which emerged at the same time. Some of the notable Australian acts who have acknowledged the influence of AC/DC include Airbourne, Alchemist, Blood Duster, Dallas Crane, Frenzal Rhomb, Hard-Ons, INXS, Jet, The Living End, Midnight Oil, Mortal Sin, Powderfinger, Screaming Jets, Silverchair, Spiderbait, Wolfmother and You Am I.

Tributes in Film and Motion Pictures

AC/DC's incredible influence on the zeitgeist is nowhere more evident than in popular culture films. Beyond the influence of the music itself, Angus' school uniform and duck walk are a body of text often mimicked. So too the band's logo, which is often used in the fashion of anti social characters and parodied in movies.

• Mad Max (1979) [1] - the character known as 'Nightrider' quotes some of the lyrics from AC/DC's tune "Rocker".
• Sixteen Candles (1984) [2] - In the scene where the Baker family is waking up/running around getting ready for the day, you can hear "Snowballed" playing in the bedroom of Molly Ringwald's character's brother.
• Maximum Overdrive (1986) [3] - AC/DC's album Who Made Who is the soundtrack for this film; a VW MiniBus in the opening scenes is seen to have the logo of AC/DC painted on the side.
• Empire Records (1995) [4] - Anthony LaPaglia's character plays the song "If You Want Blood, You've Got It" on the drums, in a fit of anger.
• Idiot Box (1996) [5] - in several scenes, Ben Meldonson's character wears a T-shirt bearing the logo 'RIP Bon Scott'.
• School of Rock (2003) [6] - Jack Black's character Dewey Finn wears an Angus Young schoolboy outfit, for the concert finale of the movie.
• The Pacifier (2005) [7] - The older sister wears a pink AC/DC shirt at a house party her boyfriend throws.
• The character 'Butthead', in the animated television series Beavis and Butthead, always wears an AC/DC T-shirt.
• Thunderstruck (2004) [8] - 'After a near death experience, five boys, all devoted AC/DC fans, make a pact to bury their best friend next to the grave of Bon Scott. 12 years later, having gone their different ways, they come together to fulfill the promise.'
• Kicking and Screaming (2005) - One of the soccer players wears an AC/DC shirt in many of his scenes.
• Rock Star (2001) [9] - In the scene where Chris gets his nipple pierced, "Are You Ready" can be heard playing in the background.
• in TV show My Name Is Earl, main character Earl has a list of regrets for which he seeks forgiveness from family and friends. Number 98 on the list is not taking his two sons to an amusement park because he saw an AC/DC concert instead.

Tributes by other artists

Many artists have paid tribute to the works of AC/DC, and many tribute albums have also been issued. The list is very extensive - examples include the following:

• Thrash metal group Exodus covered two songs, "Overdose" (on their 1989 album Fabulous Disaster) and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (on the digipack version of their 2004 album Tempo of the Damned)

• Rock group Guns N' Roses have played "Whole Lotta Rosie" live and included the song on a "Welcome to the Jungle" single.

• The Pop punk band The Offspring covered the song "Sin City". It is on the 2001's Million Miles Away Single.

• Marilyn Manson have played a version of "Highway to Hell" for the Kiss film Detroit Rock City.

• In 1989 or 1990, the Canadian heavy metal group Annihilator released a song cover of "Live Wire" and appeared on their 1996 live album In Command.

• A character bearing a striking resembelance to Angus Young can be seen on the cover the 1994 album Dookie by Green Day. He is on top of the red building on the right, right behind the dogs pouring brown matter into the street.

• Power metal group Iced Earth covered two songs "Highway to Hell" and "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" on the 2002 covers album Tribute to the Gods.

• 2004 saw the release of a tribute to AC/DC album The Rock-A-Billy Tribute to AC/DC.

• The Colombian singer Shakira covered the song "Back in Black" in her live CD and DVD Live & Off the Record.

• The garage rock band The Hives covered the song "Back in Black".

• In 2005, Nerf Herder frontman Parry Gripp released his first solo album titled For Those About to Shop, We Salute You as a parody of the title For Those About To Rock (We Salute You). The album cover is also parody of the international version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

• The rock band Foo Fighters performed a cover of AC/DC's Back in Black, with Jack Black providing lead vocals in the MTV coverage of the 2001 New Year's Eve.

• Motörhead covered the songs "Highway To Hell" and "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)".

• Danish death metal band Illdisposed covered Beating Around The Bush on their 2000 release Retro.

• American Bluegrass band Hayseed Dixie released the album A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC, which was a cover of many of the band's greatest hits.

• The movie School of Rock featured a cover of It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll). This song is featured on the soundtrack. (The movie also features the original version of For Those About To Rock (We Salute You), though this doesn't appear on the soundtrack.) Jack Black dresses in a Angus Young type schoolboy outfit for concert finale'.

• Sprung Monkey performed a cover of "Thunderstruck", the latter part of the song incorporating AC/DC lyrics from other songs such as "Big Balls" and "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)". This song appears on the soundtrack for Varsity Blues.

• Mark Kozelek performed three covers on his EP Rock 'N' Roll Singer. The covers were radically interpreted into a "folk ballad" style. They were so well-received that he decided to do a whole album of AC/DC covers. The album was titled What's Next To The Moon.

• The US death metal band Six Feet Under covered the song "T.N.T." on their album Graveyard Classic and recorded the entire Back in Black album as Graveyard Classics 2 in 2004.

• Living Colour recorded a cover version of "Back In Black" for their 2004 reunion album, CollideØscope.

• Quiet Riot performed a cover of "Highway To Hell" on their album Alive and Well.

• In 1998, serveral artists collaborated on a tribute called Thunderbolt. Some of the musicians are Sebastian Bach, Joe Lynn Turner, Jack Russell, John Corabi (Ex-Mötley Crüe member) and Ugly Kid Joe (Also known as The Sensational Whiskiteer Band).

• John Farnham covered "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock And Roll)" for his Age of Reason album.

• You Am I with Tex Perkins on vocals covered "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" for the Dirty Deeds motion picture soundtrack in 2002.

• Cult Australian punk rock band The Hard Ons covered "Let there be Rock" with Henry Rollins on vocals.

• An Australian tribute album called Fuse Box release in 1995 featured 17 Australian bands covering their favourite tracks. A famous highlight was Aboriginal band Yothu Yindi's cover of "Jailbreak". Singer Mandawuy Yunupingu made a very cheeky stab at the issue of Aboriginal deaths in police custody, by changing a lyric to "And he got out... With a Sheet around his neck", instead of "...a bullet in his back".

• In 2006, all-star rock band Damnocracy, from VH1's reality show Supergroup featuring Ted Nugent among others did covers of AC/DC's "Sin City" and "T.N.T."

• On the Twisted Sister tribute album Twisted Forever, the final track is Twisted Sister performing the AC/DC song "Sin City".

External links

• Official AC/DC Site
• AC/DC at the Open Directory Project
• AC/DC at Rolling Stone
• AC/DC at MusicBrainz