Tag: AC/DC
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AC/DC Live at The Olympic Stadium, London: Axl/DC On Song
It was rather an unpopular choice of replacement, and there was much muttering about how things wouldn’t be the same. The longer you do a job, the harder you are to replace. But that’s enough about Top Gear. For a lead singer to be able to replace Brian Johnson, they had to be their own…
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Axl/DC?: Five Reasons Why Axl Rose Fronting AC/DC is Great News For Fans
Axl Rose is to replace Brian Johnston as AC/DC’s chief shouter in a move that has caused the sort of Earth-shattering consternation amongst the chattering classes not witnessed since the producers of “Call The Midwife” controversially staged a scene where someone was slightly rude to someone else. There’s no truth to the rumours that…
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The Grammys 2015: Isn’t Kanye A Lovely Unassuming Chap?
The Grammy Awards were on TV tonight in a prime time slot on national TV shoe-horned onto obscure digital-only channel 4Music. AC/DC kicked things off in style. In the UK, seeing a schoolboy next to an old man in a flat cap at a music industry event just brings unwelcome thoughts of certain radio 1…
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The Day I Appeared In An AC/DC Video
Ask a teenager now if they would stay up all night to watch TV on the off chance of seeing one of their favourite bands’ music videos and you’ll probably get as baffled a look as the one that Wayne Rooney might give you were you to ask him a tricky question such as “What…
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What’s The Best Souvenir You Have Taken From A Gig?
Grabbing a souvenir from a gig is one of life’s rare pleasures. Oh sure – you can go to the merchandise stall at the back of the hall and pick up a Black Sabbath tea towel or Iron Maiden cutlery set or whatever they sell nowadays, but getting something for nothing is where it’s at.…
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AC/DC’s Best Album – Live from the Atlantic Recording Studios
AC/DC’s Live from The Atlantic Recording Studios is a lost classic – and in my view is their best album. Very soon after I bought AC/DC’s Fly on the Wall, The Friday Rock Show broadcast an entire live show of AC/DC from December 1977 live from the Atlantic Recording Studios. I was there hovering over…
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AC/DC’s Worst Album?: Not what you think it is….
There are some records I own that I think are great, despite all evidence to the contrary. The album might have had a critical mauling akin to Spinal Tap‘s “Shark Sandwich“, it might not be fit to hold a candle to the band’s previous efforts, and it might, to all intents and purposes, have been…
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In the beginning…before Later with Jools Holland…there was The Tube…
There was a time before Later…with Jools Holland. This was a time of The Tube… In 1986 it was still challenging to hear heavy metal on mainstream media. It would have been easier for Ghengis Khan to pass a CRB police check to help out at his local school than for the UK public to…
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