"Alexander Young (musician) Alexander Young (28 December 1938 – 4 August 1997), also known as George Alexander, was a Scottish singer, songwriter, saxophonist, bassist, guitarist and session musician. He was an elder brother of George Young, the rhythm guitarist and founding member of the Easybeats, as well as Malcolm and Angus Young, founding members of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and the younger brother of Stephen Young, the father of Stevie Young, who is also a member of AC/DC. William Young (born 16 February 1911) and his family lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow"
"Tales of Old Grand Daddy Tales of Old Grand-Daddy is the only album released by the Marcus Hook Roll Band, in Australia in 1973. The album is noted for being the recording debut of future AC/DC founders Angus Young and Malcolm Young. Many of the details surrounding ""Tales of Old Grand Daddy"" remain forgotten due to excessive alcohol consumption during the recording sessions. According to George Young, ""We all got rotten (drunk) – except Angus, who was too young – and we spent a month in the studio boozing it up every night."" The album features rhythm and lead guitar"
"band members themselves, since he represents the band in most interviews and contributes most to the band's image in the popular media. Another example is Angus Young of AC/DC, who is the band's lead guitarist, and co-leader with his brother Malcolm Young (until the latter's death in 2017); while lead singer Brian Johnson (and before him Bon Scott) is the band's front man, Angus Young can be thought to share the front man position with Johnson, due to his on-stage antics and his role as the band's mascot, frequently featuring on album covers and promotional materials. In many bands, such"
"recorded at Maschener Studios as well with music and lyrics written by Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother, Alex Young. This song was never released by AC/DC and remains in Albert Productions' vaults. German band Accept later released it as a single and named their second album after the song. In May 1976 ""High Voltage"" was released in the United States. However, hampered by visa problems and a disinterested Atlantic Records label in the United States, the band returned to Australia to finish their third album. The title track would become one of the band's most famous songs, with the"
"hard rock music the world over. From their humble beginnings, Scottish brothers Angus and Malcolm Young forged a hard-hitting, ball-breaking pub guitar sound, similar to Alex Harvey but tougher. When Bon Scott joined the band to lend his unique vocal talent, the band began their 'long way to the top', shooting to the top of the Australian rock scene in 1974–75 and their song ""It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)"". The band later achieved international success, especially with the release of their album ""Highway to Hell"". This was to be Bon Scott's last"
"band's first album without founding member and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, who left the band in 2014 for health reasons. Malcolm's departure was later clarified by the band and their management, who stated that he was officially diagnosed with dementia. While Malcolm has writing credits for every track on the album, all of his guitar parts were recorded by his nephew Stevie Young. He died on 18 November 2017, weeks after his older brother George Young. Before the album was officially announced, Brian Johnson admitted that it was difficult to make the album without Malcolm. He brought about the idea"
"friends with another migrant, Harry Vanda. The Young family then moved into a semi-detached house at 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. Both Angus and Malcolm Young were in a band with their brother George and his music partner Harry Vanda called Marcus Hook Roll Band. The project released an album in Australia called ""Tales of Old Grand Daddy"". Malcolm Young played guitar on the 1974 release ""Evie"" by Stevie Wright, written and produced by Harry Vanda and George Young. The song is 11 minutes long and has three parts. Young played the guitar solo in Part"
"same magazine has also ranked the song No. 29 on their list of ""The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time"", and wrote of the song in an accompanying piece: ""Angus and Malcolm Young's dual-guitar masterpiece is the platonic ideal of hard rock."" In 2010, this song sits at No. 2 in Triple M's Ultimate 500 Rock Countdown in Melbourne, Australia. The Top 5 were all AC/DC songs. As a single, ""Back in Black"" peaked in the U.S. at No. 37 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1981 as well as at No. 51 on Billboard's Top Tracks chart,"
"on their Facebook page in April 2014 that Malcolm Young would be taking a break from the band due to his ill health. It ended: ""The band will continue to make music."" In July 2014, AC/DC announced that they had finished recording their next album and that Malcolm's nephew, Stevie Young, replaced Malcolm in the studio. On 23 September 2014, Alberts Management confirmed that Malcolm had officially departed from the band. Malcolm's last show with the band was on 28 June 2010 in Bilbao, Spain; he died on 18 November 2017 at the age of 64. Drummer Phil Rudd released"
"guitarist and co-songwriter Angus Young was first inspired to play guitar after listening to Little Richard's music, and rhythm guitarist and co-writer Malcolm Young derived his signature sound from playing his guitar like Little Richard's piano. Later performers such as Mystikal, André ""André 3000"" Benjamin of Outkast and Bruno Mars were cited by critics as having emulated Little Richard's style in their own works. Mystikal's rap vocal delivery was compared to Little Richard's. André 3000's vocals in Outkast's hit, ""Hey Ya!"", were compared to an ""indie rock Little Richard"". Bruno Mars admitted Little Richard was one of his earliest influences."
"and became friends with another migrant, Harry Vanda. The Young family moved into a semi detached house at 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. He dropped out of Ashfield Boys High School at age 15. Young first started playing on a banjo, re-strung with six strings. He first started playing guitar on a cheap acoustic model purchased second-hand by his mother. His first Gibson SG was bought second-hand around 1970 from a music shop just down the street from his home: Both Angus and Malcolm Young were in a band with their brother George and his music"
"band."" The album was produced by Vanda & Young at Albert Studios in Sydney, Australia. George Young is the older brother of Angus and Malcolm, and also plays bass guitar on a number of the album's songs. Harry Vanda was a bandmate of George's in the Easybeats, and the pair were the main songwriters of the band's later hits, including their international smash ""Friday on My Mind"". When George Young heard what his younger siblings were up to, he was quite impressed, telling VH1's ""Behind the Music"" in 2000, ""All of a sudden the kid brothers were still the kid"
"""VH1"" ranked AC/DC number 23 in its list of the ""100 Greatest Artists of All Time"". Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland living at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill area. The Big Freeze of 1963 was the worst winter on record in Scotland with snow deep. A TV advertisement at the same time offered assisted travel for families for a different life in Australia. Fifteen members of the Young family left Scotland by plane in late June 1963. Before moving into a house at 4 Burleigh Street in the suburb of Burwood they initially"
"in Concord, New South Wales. He returned to Scotland in 1970. After his first bands, The Stabbers, Prowler and Tantrum formed in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick in the late 70s, Young made two albums in the 1980s with his rock band Starfighters, formed 1980 in Birmingham. Starfighters were chosen as support for AC/DC's Back in Black UK Tour in 1980. Starfighters split in 1983 before coming back together in 1987 for another shot. When that did not work out, Young formed Little Big Horn whose demo tape was produced by Malcolm Young. They soon broke up after a"
"& Son. From 1974 onwards they enjoyed huge success in Australia and internationally, writing and producing hits for a number of popular Australian groups and solo singers, including John Paul Young, Cheetah, Stevie Wright, Ted Mulry, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, William Shakespeare, Mark Williams and, most notably, AC/DC. AC/DC included George Young's brothers, guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young. Vanda & Young produced landmark albums such as ""Let There Be Rock"", ""Powerage"", ""If You Want Blood You've Got It"", ""Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"", ""High Voltage/TNT"", amongst others. Vanda and Young also had major international success with their own studio-only project"
"1980. Angus stated in an interview in early May 2011 that the band was beginning to plan another world tour, saying, ""Now we're thinking, 'How can we ever better the 'Black Ice' world tour?' But we will."" At the band's ""Live at River Plate"" DVD premiere on 6 May 2011 at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, England, Angus said that there were plans for the group to release a new studio album ""within the next couple of years"", which the tour would support. In May 2012, Malcolm Young confirmed that the band were working on a potential follow-up to 2008's"
"Young and Harry Vanda. According to the book ""AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll"", the band was not enthusiastic about the idea, especially guitarists Angus Young and Malcolm Young, who felt a strong sense of loyalty to their older brother George: The producer Atlantic paired the band up with was South African-born Eddie Kramer, best known for his pioneering work as engineer for Jimi Hendrix but also for mega-bands Led Zeppelin and Kiss. Kramer met the band at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida but, by all accounts, they did not get on. Geoff Barton quotes Malcolm Young in ""Guitar Legends"" magazine:"
"Toronto Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC played ""Rock Me Baby"" with the Rolling Stones. The Leipzig performance can be found on disc 2 of AC/DC's ""Plug Me In"", while the Toronto performance was included in the ""Toronto Rocks"" DVD. Rolling Stones Additional musicians Licks Tour The Licks Tour was a worldwide concert tour undertaken by The Rolling Stones during 2002 and 2003, in support of their 40th anniversary compilation album ""Forty Licks"". The tour grossed over $300 million, becoming the second highest grossing tour at that time, behind their own Voodoo Lounge Tour of 1994–1995. The itinerary continued the"
"Angus Young, both founding members of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC), to a publishing contract. Alexander Young had chosen to remain in Britain when the rest of the Youngs emigrated to Australia, and had previously played with The Bobby Patrick Six, with whom he toured Germany in the mid-1960s. In November 1967, John Perry, a former member of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, pitched some of his songs to Doran at Apple Publishing. Doran rejected the songs but proposed combining Perry and his bandmates Geoff Swettenham and Pete Swettenham with Alexander to form a new group. The band was"
"former mentor, Bruce Howe, and at the end of the session, at dawn, it was obvious that AC/DC had found a new singer. And Bon had found a new band."" Like Scott, Malcolm Young and his younger brother Angus Young of AC/DC were born in Scotland before emigrating to Australia in their childhood with their family. Fraternity later reformed and replaced Scott with Jimmy Barnes. Scott replaced Dave Evans as the lead singer of AC/DC on 24 October 1974, when it became obvious the band and Evans were heading in different directions, with Evans having personal clashes with band members"
"Andy Yorke Andy Yorke (born 10 January 1972) is an English musician and former lead singer and guitarist for the band Unbelievable Truth. He is the younger brother of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke. Yorke began singing when he was ten. At the age of twelve, Yorke met Nigel Powell at Abingdon School, with whom he would eventually form the band Unbelievable Truth. At this time, Yorke also began learning Russian. He travelled to the Soviet Union in 1987, at the age of 15. The name of the band was inspired by Hal Hartley's 1989 movie ""The Unbelievable Truth"". Yorke studied"
"& Young (""CSNY""). After CSNY, Stills joined with Hillman (after his stint with the Flying Burrito Brothers) and others to form the group Manassas (1971–1973). Furay later joined J.D. Souther and Chris Hillman to form the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, and Messina teamed with Kenny Loggins in Loggins & Messina. In 1997, Buffalo Springfield was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A four-disc box set assembled by Young, ""Buffalo Springfield"", was released in 2001. A further box set 'What's That Sound? Complete Albums Collection' was released in 2018 by Rhino Records. <nowiki>*</nowiki><br>† Buffalo Springfield Buffalo Springfield was a Canadian-American"
"his former band mate Bon Scott's premature passing (the previous AC/DC singer drank himself to death in London in 1980), he began attending AA meetings, confessing to VH1's ""Behind the Music"" in 2000, ""My drinking overtook my whole thing. I felt like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I had a talk with Angus...I was letting people down...I wasn't brain-dead, but I was just physically and mentally screwed by the alcohol."" Filling in for him was Malcolm and Angus' nephew, Stevie Young, although Malcolm was present on the rest of the tour and in the ""Blow Up Your Video"" promotional videos."
"Another elder brother, Alex (28 December 19381997), stayed in the UK, and was later a member of London-based group, Grapefruit. Another brother, John Young (born 17 May 1937), had migrated to Australia separately. Malcolm later described the family's musical background: ""All the males in our family played, Stevie, the oldest played accordion, Alex and John were the first couple to play guitar, and being older it was sort of passed down to George, then myself, then Angus."" Initially staying at Villawood Migrant Hostel (a site later turned into Villawood Immigration Detention Centre) in Nissen huts, George Young met and became"
"Young leaving the band in September 2014 after being diagnosed with dementia, eventually dying from the illness in 2017. Additionally, all other members of this line-up other than Angus Young left by the end of 2016 shortly after the release of the band's follow up album, ""Rock or Bust"". ""Black Ice"" is AC/DC's fifteenth studio album release in Australia and their fourteenth international release. The band took a break after finishing the Stiff Upper Lip World Tour in 2001, and resumed performing in 2003, with eight presentations that included AC/DC's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and"
"orchestra MFSB and the Salsoul Orchestra, as well as John Davis & the Monster Orchestra. Earl Young (drummer) Earl Donald Young (born June 2, 1940) is a Philadelphia-based drummer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the Philly Soul sound. Young is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps who had a hit record with ""Disco Inferno"". Young, along with Ronnie Baker and Norman Harris (the trio best known as Baker-Harris-Young), was the owner of the Golden Fleece record label. Young is seen as the inventor of the disco style of rock drumming"
"hardships endured by a rock band on tour, such as being robbed, assaulted, stoned and cheated by a greedy agent. However, the band accepts these hardships as natural on the path to stardom, saying that ""It's a long way to the top/If you wanna rock 'n' roll"". George Young (the older brother of Angus and Malcolm), having heard that Bon Scott was in a pipe band, encouraged the use of bagpipes in the song. Scott obliged despite having never played them before; he had actually been a drummer in the band. Scott used a set of bagpipes to play the"
"on the tour: ""Heatseeker,"" ""That's the Way I Wanna Rock 'n' Roll,"" ""Nick of Time"" and ""Go Zone."" On the eve of the North American leg of the tour (a massive stretch that would run from May to November), Malcolm Young decided not to participate in order to deal with a by-now problematic alcohol addiction. Unlike Angus, who had always been a teetotaller, Malcolm enjoyed drinking but in recent years it had escalated to the point where it began to affect performances. The band's former U.S. agent Doug Thaler recalls seeing the band one of the Monsters of Rock shows"
"in February 1988 in Perth, Australia. That April, on the eve of the North American leg of the tour, Malcolm Young announced that he was taking time off from touring, principally to begin recovery from his alcoholism. Another member of the Young family, their nephew, Stevie Young, temporarily took Malcolm's place on rhythm guitar. Following the tour, drummer Simon Wright left the group to work on the upcoming Dio album ""Lock Up the Wolves"", and was replaced by ex-Firm and Manfred Mann drum veteran Chris Slade, whom Malcolm remembered playing with Manfred Mann during an appearance in Sydney years earlier"
"they opened three concerts for The Rolling Stones' Licks Tour. During those two years, guitarists Angus Young and Malcolm Young wrote music separately, then met in a London studio to work on new songs. The production of ""Black Ice"" was delayed for several reasons. AC/DC left their label Atlantic Records, signed a deal with Sony Music and changed labels within Sony from Epic Records to Columbia Records. Bass guitarist Cliff Williams suffered an injury to his hand in 2005 and was unable to play for 18 months. While Williams was recovering, the Young brothers perfected the songs they had written."
"the bassist in the original line-up of AC/DC in 1973. In November 1973 he was asked to join the brand new band AC/DC by Malcolm Young shortly after, lead signer Dave Evans and drummer Colin Burgess joined as Angus Young joined shortly thereafter. On December 31, 1973 the band would perform their first ever live show. Four months later the band would record the single Can I Sit Next to You, Girl where he recorded his bass lines, shortly after he left the band and his bass lines were said to have been re-record by George Young (one of the"
"Black Ice World Tour Black Ice World Tour was a 2008–2010 concert tour by Australian rock band AC/DC, in support of their fifteenth studio album ""Black Ice"" (2008). The tour was the band's first since the Stiff Upper Lip World Tour in 2000 and 2001. It was the last tour with founding member and rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young, who left the band in September 2014 due to ill health and it was also the last tour with longtime drummer Phil Rudd who was charged in November 2014 for hiring a hitman to murder someone and possession of drugs. They were"
"older brothers of Malcolm and Angus). After this, he was replaced by Neil Smith. AC/DC employed a succession of bass players over the following few months. In January 1975 after Rob Bailey was fired, Paul Matters joined the group as bassist for live shows but his tenure was short-lived, being replaced by Mark Evans in March 1975. Until Axl Rose joined as a guest vocalist in 2016, Van Kriedt had been the only member in the group's history to be born in the US. Van Kriedt would create his own band called Non Stop Dancers with Kevin Jones (guitar, vocals),"