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"We've been a rock band, we've been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic story of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

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"I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released

"When you smile I see stars in the sky"

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"No-one writes rock ’n’ roll better than this.” The story of the AC/DC album that true AC/DC fans love best

"We may be little, but we make a lot of noise"

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“Bon liked a drink, but he wasn’t just a wild man. And he was great to us. He’d ask us, ‘Got any money?’ When we said no, he’d pull out a huge wad of tenners and give us 20 quid to buy some beers”: The life and times of legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott

As Angus Young said: “Bon joined us pretty late in his life. But that guy had more youth in him than people half his age”

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"I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released

Angus Young on AC/DC's most "regrettable" song

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"A stylus-melting red-hot riff-o-rama that demands to be played loud." AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It

Recorded in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, If You Want Blood is AC/DC and Bon Scott at their live peak

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"Bon was the kind of person that every guy in rock'n'roll loves." Sammy Hagar, Rob Halford, Lars Ulrich, Josh Homme and more pay tribute to AC/DC's Bon Scott

The tributes come as a "robust event and merchandising plan" is unveiled to celebrate Bon Scott's 80th birthday

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“The sound of his guitar is everything rolled into one. It’s blues, it’s rock ’n’ roll, and it’s got that hard edge to it. It’s not clean – it’s nasty!”: Angus Young on the legendary guitarists that lit a fire in him

Plus: the story of AC/DC's greatest blues song

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“Bon downed about two bottles of bourbon and says, ‘Right, I’m ready’. And he was, too”: Why the best thing AC/DC released in the mid ’80s wasn’t an album – it was an EP of 10-year old songs

The ’74 Jailbreak EP was a reminder of what AC/DC sounded like at their rawest

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Debate: Which is the better album? Highway To Hell or Back In Black?

AC/DC's last album with Bon faces off against their first with Brian

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From Bondi to the Agora Ballroom: The story of what happened when AC/DC arrived in America

AC/DC landed in the US four days after the release of Let There Be Rock, primed for their first North American tour. Nobody knew who they were

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“In America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on picketing the gigs. I said: ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said: ‘You!’”: The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era

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AC/DC review – a thrilling show stuffed with classics … and your eardrums will never be the same

In the band’s ‘ancestral homeland’, Accadacca’s first Australian concert in a decade shows Angus Young is still a frenzied force to be reckoned with

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World's largest bagpipe ensemble pays tribute to Bon Scott in Australia as AC/DC break out a classic for the first time in decades

The event was held as AC/DC began the Australian leg of their Power Up tour

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How AC/DC’s 1975 debut shocked Australian culture

In February 1975, a gang of scruffy Sydney rockers released their first two albums: High Voltage and TNT. A year later, songs from both records were repackaged into AC/DC’s first international album, also titled High Voltage.

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"We want to appeal to everybody and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires": How AC/DC's plan to conquer the world began in the back of a squalid bus

We travel back to 1976 to spend time with AC/DC as they clamber the first few rungs on stardom’s greasy ladder

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AC/DC - ranked! All 17 studio albums, from worst to best

As the old song goes: "Let there be rock!"

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“We were heartbroken. The world had lost a big talent. But as a band we had lost much more”: The rollercoaster story of AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 50-million selling album that emerged from tragedy

How AC/DC recovered from the death of iconic singer Bon Scott to make the biggest rock album ever

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"When I met him he was this hippie dude, living up in the hills taking magic mushrooms." The making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler

45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all

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“Meeting your heroes can be disappointing, but not with Bon. It was our first real tour, and he was great to us”: Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott pays tribute to the late, great AC/DC singer Bon Scott

Leppard opened for AC/DC on the Highway To Hell tour

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“Malcolm said, ‘I've got this riff, it's driving me nuts.’ It's three o'clock in the morning and I'm trying to sleep. I said, ‘It sounds fine to me.’ That was Back in Black”: Through 50 years of triumph and tragedy, they remain hard rock's greatest titans

AC/DC's Angus Young traces the lineage of one of rock's greatest bands – from his air-tight six-string chemistry with his brother Malcolm, that time he tried one of Malcolm's guitars, and why he avoided Strats at all costs

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"Is playing a sheep-shearing shed really what I wanted out of being in a band?!" Meet the Southern River Band, the Aussie rock'n'rollers with fire in their bellies and classic rock in their veins

Already confirmed for Download 2025, the Southern River Band are about to kick off a UK tour

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“Ozzy says, ‘I’ve never thrown a TV out the window.’ So I rip one out of the wall and launch it out of the window”: Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more

Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses –Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more

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"If you're not joining in, you're out… I got my P45”: How the Bee Gees, Burt Bacharach and coke derailed the first attempt at recording Oasis's Definitely Maybe

It started with a promise between friends and turned into every producer’s worst nightmare: Inside the aborted first attempt at recording Oasis’s classic debut

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Linkin Park reform with a new singer – three other bands that have successfully done the same

Linkin Park have announced that they are reforming, seven years after disbanding due to the death of lead singer Chester Bennington.

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