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Paul Brannigan

The Stranglers laughed at AC/DC's long hair when they shared a stage in 1976. They weren't laughing after AC/DC played

The Stranglers and AC/DC circa 1977.

They've been one of the world's biggest rock bands for over four decades now, but AC/DC never lost the 'us against the world' mentality which they developed in their formative years on the Australian pub circuit.

"We were just five fucking little guys carting our own gear around in a van and it was always hard going," bandleader Malcolm Young once told this writer. "But we’d always stand up to anyone. When you've got five little guys turning around going, 'Yeah? What are you gonna fucking do about it?' it made people think, 'Hang on... maybe they've got guns or something.' We had to fight a lot. There'd always be troublemakers there after the shows waiting for us. We'd get bricks through the window... or have shotguns pulled on us."

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