More than three decades into a career that shows no signs of slowing down or letting up, AC/DC, like electricity itself, provides the world with an essential source of power and energy. Since forming in 1973, AC/DC's high voltage rock 'n' roll has flowed out into the world via consistently sold-out concert tours and global sales totaling more than 150 million albums and counting. Sony BMG Music Entertainment's #1 best-selling catalog act worldwide, AC/DC has sold nearly 70 million albums in the U.S. alone, making AC/DC one of the five top-selling bands in American music history. One of the group's best-loved works, the enormously successful and influential "Back In Black," has achieved RIAA "Double Diamond" status, for sales in excess of 22 million copies in the United States, and is the U.S.'s fifth largest-selling album ever. <br /><br />But the roots of AC/DC lie back in Australia, and before that Glasgow, Scotland, where Angus and Malcolm Young, the musical core of the band (and still the most formidable guitar team in rock history), were born (in 1958 and 1953, respectively). In 1963, the Young family migrated to Sydney, Australia, where music would make its mark on the brothers. (As a member of the Easybeats, Angus and Malcolm's older sibling, George Young, was responsible for one of Australia's first international hits, "Friday On My Mind," in 1966. From 1974 through 2000, George and musical collaborator, Harry Vanda, produced a number of AC/DC albums including "High Voltage,," "T.N.T.," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Let There Be Rock," "If You Want Blood You've Got It," "Powerage," "'74 Jailbreak," "Who Made Who," "Blow Up Your Video," and "Stiff Upper Lip.") <br /><br />Taking a cue and encouragement from their older brother's musical success, Angus and Malcolm Young formed their own rock 'n' roll combo and premiered their inimitable interlocking guitar sound on December 31, 1973 at a New Year's Eve gig at Sydney's Chequers Club. <br /><br />Calling their new rock band "AC/DC" (from the back of a sewing machine owned by their sister, Margaret), Angus and Malcolm moved from Sydney to Melbourne and began plowing through numerous line-ups searching for a solid rhythm section and a lead singer whose voice could match the manic assault of the Young brothers' guitars. The newly-christened AC/DC found its spiritual sparkplug in Bon Scott, a hard-living, hard-loving, hard-playing wild-eyed rabble-rousing singer who'd once "auditioned" for the band when he'd worked for them as a roadie and driver back in Sydney. With Bon Scott, another born Scotsman who'd relocated to Australia as a lad, in place as co-frontman to Angus's trademark raffish schoolboy-in-knickers, AC/DC was ready to electrify the world. <br /><br />Quickly signed by George Young to the Albert Records label in Australia, AC/DC kicked out its first Australian album releases, 1974's "High Voltage" (a somewhat different album from the US "High Voltage") and 1975's "T.N.T." With each album achieving silver, gold, and platinum status in Australia, AC/DC embarked on a regime of relentless touring that would become one of the most enduring hallmarks of the band's career. <br /><br />In 1976, having conquered their very first continent, AC/DC set off for Great Britain. When the band's no-holds-barred double-barrel rock 'n' roll landed them a residency at the prestigious Marquee Club, AC/DC promptly broke the venue's all-time house attendance record. AC/DC's days in clubland would not last much longer. Within a year, "Let There Be Rock," the band's first simultaneous world release and first to use the unmistakable AC/DC logo -- raised metallic Gothic lettering separated by Zeus's own lightning bolt -- would catapult them into the stadium strata. AC/DC was ready to take on America. <br /><br />The summer of 1977 found AC/DC performing a dizzying crisscross of American gigs, ranging from clubs like the Palladium and CBGB in New York and the Whiskey in Los Angeles to sprawling venues like the Jacksonville Coliseum. By 1978, AC/DC was one of the hottest concert attractions in the world. For the group's next studio album, they teamed up with producer Mutt Lange to create the undeniable hard rock masterpiece, 1979's "Highway To Hell," the first AC/DC album to break into the US Top 100 and the first to go gold in America. In November of that year, the band went to Paris to film the monumental "Let The Be Rock" concert film, a quintessential document of a golden moment in the band's rise to world fame. <br /><br />On February 19, 1980, with the band finding genuine success around the world, lead singer Bon Scott died in London at the age of 33. Reeling from the shock of the loss of their boisterous soulful lead singer, the surviving members of AC/DC decided there was only one way to pay proper tribute to Bon Scott: carry on and create the music he'd want them to make. <br /><br />The group found an incredibly simpatico new lead singer and frontman in Brian Johnson, a Newcastle native who'd sung in a band Bon Scott raved about called Geordie. Returning to the studio with Mutt Lange, AC/DC and the group's new vocalist created "Back In Black," one of the best-selling albums, in any musical genre, of all-time. Powered by the title track and the anthemic "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Back In Black" hit #1 in the UK and #4 in the US, where it has gone on to achieve 22x platinum (double Diamond plus) status. <br /><br />AC/DC continued releasing best-selling albums through the 1980s and 1990s accompanied by strings of sold-out tours and major headlining concert and festival performances -- including attendance-record-smashing concerts on the "Monsters of Rock," Castle Donington, "Rock In Rio," and 1991's "Rock Around The Bloc" festival at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, a free concert attended by close to one million fans. <br /><br />On September 15, 2000, AC/DC was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and had their hands imprinted in the cement in front of the Guitar Center on Hollywood Boulevard. <br /><br />On March 10, 2003, AC/DC was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Aerosmith's Steve Tyler performed the induction, sang "You Shook Me All Night Long" with AC/DC during the ceremony and described the group's signature power chords and timelessly enduring rock 'n' roll as "...the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body."<br /><br />--Tim Holmes http://www.imeem.com/acdc Delta 0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss AC/DC http://www.imeem.com/acdc/video/DUstXdEm/acdc-rock-n-roll-fannation-episode-4-music-video/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:58:55 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/acdc/video/DUstXdEm/acdc-rock-n-roll-fannation-episode-4-music-video/"><img width="100" height="56" border="0" src="http://srv0204-01.sjc3.imeem.com/g/v/c84febbdf8cae3af636e2116423c67b0_00010.jpg" title="Click to play this video"/></a></div> lX8DaWKLbb AC/DC are officially up for a Grammy! At the nomination ceremony last night, it was announced that they are up for "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals" for their smash single "Rock 'N Roll Train." They will be up against Coldplay, The Eagles, Kings of Leon, and Radiohead. That's some tough competition, but we're up for it.<br /><br />You can see who wins by tuning into the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 8 pm (ET/PT) on CBS. They will be broadcasting live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. AC/DC news http://www.imeem.com/acdc/blogs/2008/12/04/spDOqEjp/grammy-nomination Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0000 Dm4LsDpW6Y <b>“Black Ice is the best record the band has made in decades”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/wp.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> A celebration of all that is great about Rock N Roll.”<br /><br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ct.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “If this is what AC/DC sounds like on opening night after a seven-year layoff, later dates on the tour are going to be amazing.” <br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ttl.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “AC/DC is the greatest band ever.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/tbg.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “AC/DC: Rock ‘n’ roll that outlasts time”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ct2.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Black Ice finds the Australian rockers at their headbanging, power-chord-crunching best.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/p.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “AC/DC remain timeless”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/rs.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “AC/DC still sound strong and hungry 35 years on”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/s.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “You get primal rock with 70’s power, 60’s tunefulness and the wild abandon of the original 50’s recipe.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ut.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> After an eight year absence, the brothers Young come back as conquering heroes”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/rmn.jpg" /><br /><br /> <br /><br /> “just one monster riff-rock juggernaut after another.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/tts.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “thrilling in the extreme.”“AC/DC electrifies”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/dn.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> "AC/DC electrifies"<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/dfp.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Time stands still for AC/DC”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/st.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Rock N Roll heaven”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/top.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “If there's a band that's absolutely essential for the rock 'n' roll time capsule, it's AC/DC.” <br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/os.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Hot Riffs? Juicy Tempos? 'Black Ice' Pours 'Em On” <br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ttt.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “AC/DC’s music is still an elemental force”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/toc.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Black Ice is a loud salute to arrested development.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/wsj.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Black Ice is a really solid hard rock album that showcases the band’s strengths even as it sounds surprisingly down-to-earth.”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/me.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />“AC/DC Returns With Its Best Album In 25 Years” <br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/sce.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young remain one of the most lethal guitar duos in rock history”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/tar.jpg" /><br /><br /><br />“Veteran Aussie rockers AC/DC electrify” <br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/top2.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /> “Critical acclaim escaped them…until now”<br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/press/ap.jpg" /></b> AC/DC NEW ALBUM! http://www.imeem.com/acdc/blogs/2008/11/10/X2af7On-/the-press-cant-stop-raving-about-acdc Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:58:35 -0000 u7jFpAP3zr AC/DC http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/tUDNocyM/acdc-whole-lotta-rosie/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:39:13 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/tUDNocyM/acdc-whole-lotta-rosie/"><img border="0" src="http://icons-p2.imeem.com/tUDNocyM.jpg" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> rntJ4zXUJW AC/DC http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/4SNmf1WU/acdc-for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:39:12 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/4SNmf1WU/acdc-for-those-about-to-rock-we-salute-you/"><img border="0" src="http://icons-p3.imeem.com/4SNmf1WU.jpg" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> mNWRY8SnO6 AC/DC http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/Z4JMAvfK/acdc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:39:11 -0000 <div><a href="http://www.imeem.com/acdc/music/Z4JMAvfK/acdc-dirty-deeds-done-dirt-cheap/"><img border="0" src="http://icons-p2.imeem.com/Z4JMAvfK.jpg" title="Click to play this song"/></a></div> KcqEHRB_Ec Last night, AC/DC played a very intimate secret show in Wilkes-Barre, PA for a few thousand lucky fans. Here is a little taste of what went down and what you can expect if you have tickets to one of their many shows which begin tomorrow.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/photos/train.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/photos/rosie.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/photos/canons.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><br> AC/DC news http://www.imeem.com/acdc/blogs/2008/10/27/C1GOyvJg/secret-show-review-note-contains-tour-spoilers Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:15:21 -0000 xnbkOYhVAC If you are in New York City or Los Angeles, be sure to check out the AC/DC Rock Band Stores. You can pick up lots of AC/DC merchandise, including their brand new album BLACK ICE, and play the brand new Rock Band 2. All of the info is below. Here are some pictures of the stores.<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/storeny.jpg"><br>AC/DC Rock Band Store in NYC<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/inside.jpg"><br>Inside the NYC AC/DC Store<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/truckny.jpg"><br>The Black Ice Truck hanging out outside of the AC/DC Store in NYC<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/billboardny.jpg"><br>AC/DC Billboard in Times Square across from AC/DC Rock Band Store<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/insidela.jpg"><br>Inside the AC/DC Rock Band Store in LA (while under construction)<br><br><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/truckla.jpg"><br>The Black Ice Truck on Hollywood & Vine in LA<br><br><i>Info</i><br><br>The AC/DC Rock Band stores will open Sun., October 19 at 10 p.m. The stores will be open through Jan. 4, 2009 in New York at the MTV Store in Times Square and at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. <i><br><br>Locations</i><br><br>The MTV Store featuring AC/DC and Rock Band<br>1515 Broadway<br>New York, NY 10036<br><br>AC/DC Rock Band Store - LA<br>6801 Hollywood Blvd (at Highland)<br>Los Angeles, CA 90028<br><a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/greatrockbandever" rel="tag"></a> AC/DC news http://www.imeem.com/acdc/blogs/2008/10/21/yBQPe_FV/update-acdc-rock-band-stores Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:40:27 -0000 Ep9bNnP8rP AC/DC Black Ice http://www.imeem.com/acdc/playlist/Dt2SU53p/black-ice-music-playlist/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:16:37 -0000 opHqR5symW Walmart and Columbia Records have partnered with MTV to create an "AC/DC Rock Band Store" in New York's Times Square and in Los Angeles to give fans in the these cities fast access to the band's newest items. These pop up stores will open 12:01 midnight Oct. 20 to begin selling the album, AC/DC apparel, the Rock Band video game, and Rock Band branded apparel and accessories.<br /><br />The AC/DC Rock Band stores will open Sun., October 19 at 10 p.m. The stores will be open through Jan. 4, 2009 in New York at the MTV Store in Times Square and at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. <br /><br /><i>Locations</i><br />The MTV Store featuring AC/DC and Rock Band<br />1515 Broadway<br />New York, NY 10036<br /><br />AC/DC Rock Band Store - LA<br />6801 Hollywood Blvd (at Highland)<br />Los Angeles, CA 90028<br /><br />The AC/DC Black Ice Truck in Times Square, New York City today. <br /><br /><img src="http://www.columbiarecords.com/artist/acdc/truck/timessquare.jpg"> AC/DC news http://www.imeem.com/acdc/blogs/2008/10/17/gFk7KHqb/acdc-rock-band-stores-in-nyc-and-la Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:17:31 -0000 JAtePHLoQc