Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC.
AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock and soon-to-be punk crowd. They weren't really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was the original bike-riding, speed-snorting, fighting man. An ex-convict he lived life fast and short; he died in February 1980, just before BACK IN BLACK, their huge-selling album, took off, and the second period of AC/DC (with Brian Johnson as lead vocalist) was ushered in.
BACK IN BLACK has gone on to sell 45 million copies worldwide, and as the band have become a global phenomenon so their reclusiveness has increased. Mick Wall, the don of heavy metal writing, seeks to penetrate the wall around the Young brothers, and write the first authoritative, in-depth critical account of AC/DC.
Megan Fox likes to be seen wearing their T-shirts. Keith Richards says guitarist Malcolm Young is better than he is. While the LA Times memorably asked: 'Why so many Satanic lyrics? Why the bisexual implications in the name? Didn't the lead singer drink himself to death? What kind of heroes are these?'
The answer: the kind that has sold over 200 million albums, played more than 10,000 shows, and still doesn't give a f*** what you think about it.
They are AC/DC and this is their never-before-told story. From their gang-busting origins on the notoriously heavy Australian pub scene of the early 1970s, to their punk-defying assault on first Britain then America in the 1980s - ruthlessly shedding many of the band members, managers, producers and record company executives that helped them get there - this is the hard-hitting, behind closed doors, in-depth biography AC/DC fans have been waiting for.
In Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be, world-renowned rock chronicler Mick Wall unearths fresh, previously unheard testimony from all the key players in the AC/DC story. In doing so, he recounts more than the story of one band; he tells the story of a family - a clan - that brooks no quarrel from outsiders.
Uncovering for the first time the truth behind the mysterious death of singer Bon Scott in 1980, and giving unflinching insight into the dizzying highs and often self-inflicted lows of their career thereafter with replacement Brian Johnson, this is the story of three determinedly ruthless brothers - Malcolm and his schoolboy-uniform-wearing younger sibling Angus, and older brother George, who masterminded all their early albums and remains the eminence-grise behind AC/DC to this day.
Tough guys from the Glasgow schemes, the Youngs have seen off drugs, death, divorce and the eternal damnation of critics to become one of the biggest, best-known rock bands in the world. 'We know what we are,' Angus once said. 'Rock'n'roll.'
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