High Voltage: The Life of Angus Young, AC/DC's Last Man Standing

by Jeff Apter

Overview

Angus Young, the founder and the last original member of AC/DC still in the band, has for more than forty years been the face, sound, and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band. In his trademark schoolboy outfit, guitar in hand, Angus has applied his signature style to songs such as “A Long Way to the Top,” “Highway to Hell,” and “Back in Black,” helping AC/DC become the biggest rock group on the planet. 
            High Voltage tells of his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world. The youngest of eight kids, Angus always seemed destined for a life in music, and it was his passion and determination that saw AC/DC become hard rock’s greatest act. Over the years, Angus has endured the devastating deaths of iconic vocalist Bon Scott and his brother in arms Malcolm Young as well as the band’s loss of singer Brian Johnson and drummer Phil Rudd. Yet the little guitar maestro’s unique flair for performance and unstoppable drive to succeed has kept AC/DC not just on the rails, but at the top of the rock pile.
 

• Features exclusive photographs by Philip Morris

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897330459
Publisher:	Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	1,095,362
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jeff Apter is the author of more than twenty books, many dealing with the world of music. He has written biographies of Keith Urban, the Finn brothers, Johnny O’Keefe, Jeff Buckley, the Bee Gees, and John Farnham, and as a ghostwriter worked with AC/DC’s Mark Evans. He spent four years on staff at Rolling Stone Australia.
 

Table of Contents

Opening Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, 20 September 2016 1

1 Little Albie Goes to Burwood 7

2 'If they Ever Want to do Something, Send them to me' 30

3 'We Cancelled Them; They Didn't Cancel Us' 48

4 'Leave My Little Brother Alone' 68

5 'Are We Rich? We Just Bought Big Ben!' 84

6 'My Bum is Better-Looking than My Face' 101

7 'I'll Buy a Guitar When all I can Afford is a Pair Of Socks' 118

8 'Hogwash - We're Calling it Highway to Hell and that's How it is' 134

9 'Bon's Dead' 150

10 'If he Could Bottle the Secret to His Stamina, He'd Make a Fortune' 169

11 'I Haven't Been to a Black Mass in Years' 187

12 I'm Up Every Day at 6 AM, Every Day, Working on New Songs' 215

13 'How Did Such Big Balls Get in Such Short Pants?' 235

14 'Can You Imagine - You Know Where You are, But Your Mind's Playing Tricks?' 251

15 'It's Always Good to Say at the End of it, "I've Done all I Said I Would Do"' 271

Postscript Sydney, January 1977 294

Where Are They Now? 298

Acknowledgements 302

Selected Discography 305

Bibliography 312

Editorial Reviews

"[A] lively and highly readable biography . . . an inspiring story.” —Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
 


“Gripping.” —Scottish Sun
 

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