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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSony Music Publishing has struck a worldwide deal to administer the works of the Australian music company Alberts, which owns the complete song catalogs of AC/DC and the songwriting and producing team Vanda, Young and Wright.

AC/DC has claimed that he was the legendary rock band’s “best” singer.The former frontman was one of the founding members of the iconic Australian rock band in 1973 alongside Malcolm and Angus Young, drummer Colin Burgess and bassist Larry Van Kriedt.Evans provided lead vocals on AC/DC’s first official single ‘Can I Sit Next To You, Girl’ and it’s B-side ‘Rocking in the Parlour’. In 1974, Evans was replaced by Bon Scott.

Colin Burgess, the original drummer of AC/DC, has died.

Legendary hard-rock band AC/DC has paid tribute to their founding member Colin Burgess, following his death aged 77.

Colin Burgess, the original drummer of rock band AC/DC, has died at age 77.

AC/DC have shared a new video for their single ‘Demon Fire’ – watch it below.The incendiary new video is the latest visual to come from the band’s chart-topping album ‘Power Up’, which arrived last month.The red and white clip sees a car driving down a dimly lit motorway, with billboards of the band members flashing by periodically.At one point, the car drives under a bridge with graffiti paying tribute to late AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young.

Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has praised AC/DC for creating a “great fucking record” after the rock icons returned with ‘Power Up’.Speaking to Consequence Of Sound, Slash praised the band after they defied personal tragedy – including the death of founding guitarist Malcolm Young – to deliver their 17th studio album.“The tragedy of losing Malcolm [Young, AC/DC’s founding rhythm guitarist]… the fact that Angus [Young] and company would survive that and keep it going, in the spirit of probably

AC/DC‘s Angus Young became visibly emotional in a new interview as he discussed his late brother Malcolm Young’s battle with dementia.Appearing on Australia’s 60 Minutes to mark the release of ‘Power Up’, the interview took an emotional turn for Angus when talk turned to Malcolm’s battle and eventual death in 2017.“I think the hardest part was not so much him passing, because that was a kind of end, a relief,” said Angus.“I think the worst part is the decline — that’s the hard part.

Back in Black, arguably the loudest wake ever committed to tape. On the one hand, the band were mourning their departed singer, Bon Scott; on the other, they were rebooting with a new frontman, Brian Johnson, whose Muttley chuckle became as much of an AC/DC trademark as the twin-guitar might of Angus and Malcolm Young.

LOS ANGELES -- Through decades, deaths and disasters, AC/DC keeps thundering on.Forty-seven years along, and with the closest thing possible to their original lineup, the rockers on Friday are releasing “Power Up," their first album in six years.It’s also the first since the 2017 death of Malcolm Young, who founded the band in Sydney, Australia in 1973 with his little brother, Angus.

AC/DC have teased that they have more than enough new material in their archives to record another album after ‘Power Up’.The Australian hard rock icons will release their 17th album this week, which features an array of ideas from their late co-founder Malcolm Young – who passed away in 2017 after a battle with dementia.But in a new interview with NME, frontman Brian Johnson explained that the expansive backlog of ideas means that more records could follow in the near future.“Most of ‘Power Up’

AC/DC have said that the late Malcolm Young would be “proud” of their latest album ‘Power Up’.Young, who co-founded the Australian rock icons, passed away in 2017 after a lengthy battle with dementia.Speaking ahead of ‘Power Up”s arrival on November 13, the band say that the record is a testament to the late guitarist’s memory.“I know Mal’s not with us anymore,” his brother, Angus Young, said in a new video. “But he’s there with us in spirit.

AC/DC‘s longtime engineer has confirmed that the band’s comeback album includes moments that were inspired by the riff ideas of the late Malcolm Young.The recently reunited band continued to teaser their forthcoming ‘PWR UP’ project last week by sharing a snippet from a new song, ‘Shot In The Dark’.Speaking to the AC/DCFans.Net podcast over the weekend about the upcoming album, producer and long-serving AC/DC sound engineer Mike Fraser discussed how the band’s songwriting and recording process

The list of bands who survived a singer's early death is a short one. So when AC/DC's flamboyant frontman Bon Scott died Feb. 19, 1980 at the age of 33, no one was betting on the Australian hard rockers' survival – much less for them to release their most successful, career-defining opus within the next five months.

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