ACDC were formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. They have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 75 million albums in the United States. ACDC are currently on a four-year hiatus after Malcolm Young’s retirement due to early-onset dementia and drummer Phil Rudd’s legal troubles. A reunion of the Rock or Bust lineup was announced in September 2020.
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ACDC were formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. They have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 75 million albums in the United States. In 2004, ACDC ranked No. 72 on the Rolling Stone list of the \”100 Greatest Artists of All Time\”. A reunion of the Rock or Bust lineup was announced in September 2020. The band’s seventeenth studio album Power Up was released two months later. ACDC are currently on a four-year hiatus after Malcolm Young’s retirement due to early-onset dementia and drummer Phil Rudd’s legal troubles. The group’s fifteenth studio album Black Ice was the second-highest-selling album of 2008, and their biggest chart hit since For Those About to Rock, eventually reaching No. 1 worldwide. In 2010, VH1 ranked ACDC number 23 in its list of the\”100 Greatest artists of all time\”. ACDC were named the seventh \”Greatest Heavy Metal Band of All time\” by MTV in 2004, and number 72 in Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of the “Greatest Artists of the 20th Century” ACDC have sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making them the ninth highest-selling artist in the U.S. and the 16th best selling artist worldwide. They are currently touring with Axl Rose, who stepped in as the band’s vocalist for the remainder of that year’s dates after Brian Johnson was advised to stop touring due to worsening hearing loss.
In 2012, the band released Back in Black, which was dedicated to Bon Scott’s memory. The album has sold 22 million units in the US, where it is the sixth- Highest- Selling Album of all Time. It was their first album to reach number one in theUnited States, and they have since had several line-up changes. In 2013, Malcolm Young was replaced by his nephew Stevie Young, who debuted on ACDC’s 2014 album Rock or bust, and on its accompanying tour, previous drummer Chris Slade filled in for Rudd. In 2014, the group toured with Guns N’ Roses frontman AxlRose, who step in for Malcolm Young, and ex-Masters Apprentices drummer Colin Burgess. In the early days, most members of the band dressed in some form of glamor outfit or sat on the stage in some kind of costume. The name ACDC came from Malcolm’s sister Margaret, who saw the initials ‘ACDC’ on a school-man costume and suggested it as a name for the band. In 1973, the Young brothers formed ACDC with bassist Larry Van Kriedt, vocalist Dave Evans, and drummers Colin Burgess and Paul Stenning. By this time, Angus Young had adopted his characteristic school-uniform outfit: Spider-Man, Zorro, a gorilla and a gorilla a parody of Superman, named Super-Angor. In 1977, Evans was fired from the band and replaced by Cliff Williams, who has appeared on every ACDC album since 1978.
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