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Though AC/DC has spent decades in the spotlight, some fans of the Australian rock band are just now learning the origin and meaning of the group's name. ... "Behind the Music," Malcolm shared that ...
AC/DC were formed in the Australian pop music scene of the early to mid-1970s, [2] which is described as the third wave of rock music. [3] Many local 1960s artists – e.g., the Easybeats and the Masters Apprentices, had attempted to gain international recognition but achieved limited commercial success overseas and disbanded after returning to Australia.
Behind the Music is an American documentary television series that initially aired on VH1 from 1997 to 2014 and has streamed on Paramount+ since July 2021. Each episode profiles and interviews a popular musical artist or group, examining career beginnings, roads to success and any resultant hardships.
The top five were all AC/DC songs. [17] It was inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia in 2012. [18] The song was also used in the comedy movie School of Rock (2003), both AC/DC's version and in a performance by the film's cast, [19] and during Only the Brave (2017).
AC/DC's two-hour Power Trip set stacked classic after classic, each delivered at deafening volume and with precisely the right blend of rawness and finesse.
"Highway to Hell" was produced by Mutt Lange as part of the album by the same name, and his work is regarded as a significant factor in delivering one of the classic AC/DC albums, the emergence of the double-guitar sound, which was later perfected on Back in Black, and improved backing vocals with Malcolm Young, joined by Cliff Williams for the first time.
By April 1988, Malcolm recognised he had a problem and, ever mindful of his former bandmate Bon Scott's premature passing (the previous AC/DC singer died of alcohol poisoning in London in 1980), he began attending AA meetings, confessing to VH1's Behind the Music in 2000, "My drinking overtook my whole
Live at River Plate is a live concert film documenting AC/DC’s Black Ice World Tour.The DVD includes footage from three concerts performed in December 2009 at the Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti in Buenos Aires, Argentina, [1] which is the home stadium of Argentine football club River Plate.