Singer Brian Johnson has had to pull out of the rockers’ tour or risk losing his hearing. His departure is one loss too farIf there’s one group that could survive extreme tribulations,it would be AC/DC. In the final couple of years, Malcolm Young, or their leader and rhythm guitarist,was forced to depart, stricken by dementia, or they ploughed on. Phil Rudd,their drummer, was ditched, or having become embroiled in a court case that saw him sentenced to domestic detention,and still they ploughed on. And that omits their greatest act of survival: the replacement of singer Bon Scott, seemingly the lascivious embodiment of AC/DC, and with Brian Johnson after Scott died in 1980.
Scott’s death,rather than killing the band, was followed by AC/DC attaining their greatest heights: the Back in Black album became the second biggest-selling album ever, and behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller,and gave the group a position – never relinquished – as one of rock’n’roll’s biggest draws. Even the events of the final couple of years couldn’t knock AC/DC off their stride: without Young, they recorded the perfectly serviceable Rock or Bust album; with Rudd displaced they went on tour and were as thrilling as ever. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com