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Metal Hammer
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Geoff Barton

"It was all a bit exhausting and emotionally draining": Meet the man who auditioned to replace Bon Scott in AC/DC and Paul Di'Anno in Iron Maiden

AC/DC onstage in 1976, plus inset headshot of Terry Slesser.

When AC/DC supported Paul Kossoff's post-Free band Back Street Crawler at London’s Marquee in May 1976, it set a strange sequence of events in motion. Angus and co. stayed friends with Crawler singer Terry Slesser and, following Bon Scott’s death, Slesser found himself auditioning for the role of AC/DC frontman. In 2009 Slesser told us the tale.


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