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Back in Black: How AC/DC Turned a Funeral into the Biggest Rock Album Ever Made
Back in Black: How AC/DC Turned a Funeral into the Biggest Rock Album Ever Made “Back in black / I hit the sack / I’ve been too long, I’m glad to be back / Yes, I’m let loose / From the noose / That’s kept me hanging about.” Every comeback in rock history is measured…
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AC/DC: The Heart Behind the Thunder
AC/DC are the loudest band in the world — a wall of Marshall stacks, a schoolboy uniform, riffs that could level buildings, fifty years of beautiful noise. But behind the thunder are human stories of remarkable tenderness: a frontman who did the dishes at his bandmates’ mothers’ houses, a singer who lost his hearing and…
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How AC/DC Made “Highway to Hell”: The Toilet Riff, the Perfectionist, and Bon’s Last Ride
In 1979, AC/DC were the hardest-working band in rock and the hungriest — broke, exhausted, and still unable to crack America after five albums. Their record label was losing patience. Their first attempt at a breakthrough had collapsed in a Miami studio, a humiliation that could have finished them. What happened next — three months…
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The Untold Story of AC/DC: Thunder From Down Under, Forged in Loss
For fifty years, AC/DC has done essentially one thing — played thunderous, three-chord rock and roll at maximum voltage — and done it better than anyone on earth. Behind the schoolboy uniform, the cannons, and the giant bells lies a family saga worthy of a novel: Scottish immigrant brothers, a sister whose sewing machine named…