Few bands unite people quite like AC/DC. From tattooed bikers to such A-list celebrities as Stephen King and Robert Downey Jr, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who actively dislikes them. Let’s face it, the 200 million people who have bought their records – 50 million of who picked up Back In Black – can’t be wrong.
But Angus Young and co had one very unlikely fan: Frank Zappa. On paper, this meeting of minds didn’t make much sense. The late Zappa was art-rock provocateur whose music straddled psychedelia, jazz, classical and pretty much everything in between. By contrast, AC/DC were the ultimate blue collar rock’n’roll band, one who would have run a mile from the words ‘avant garde’.
