| Angus
McKinnon Young
Angus McKinnon Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Angus is best known for his hard-edge blues style lead guitar, incredible
energy, wild stage antics and his schoolboy outfit.
Angus started playing guitar when he was five. He made his first
guitar by taking a banjo his family had lying around the house and
restringing it as a guitar. In his eary teens he started playing
acoustic guitar and got his first Gibson SG after seeing it in a
friend's catalogue. Until then, he had been playing on his brother
Malcolm's guitar.
Angus and Malcolm Young are arguably the greatest brother guitar
team of all-time. Together they have created some of the most memorable
guitar riffs of
all-time, From “Back In Black” to “Highwat To
Hell”.
Angus developed his signature "spasm" move while playing
live in a small club in Australia when he tripped over a cable onstage,
and just kept pounding out the solo. It went over so well, he made
it into part of his act by having a seizure-like "spasm"
onstage every night.
AC/DC formed in Australia back in 1973. Their straight forward rhythm
& blues approach has led to more than 150 million cds sold worldwide.
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