POWER PLAY
Like all of us, Angus Young has been spending a lot of time at home lately. “It’s a bit different,” the 66-year-old guitarist admits about life in the time of quarantining and social distancing. Although in some ways, he adds, not so much. “I guess I’m used to being tucked away somewhere in a room and just putting together ideas and songs,” he says with a laugh.
As it turns out, Young has indeed spent a fair amount of time these past few years “tucked away putting together ideas and songs”. Which is how we wound up, rather unexpectedly but certainly quite happily, with Power Up, AC/DC’s 16th (or, if we’re counting in Australian, 17th) full-length effort.
As for what makes it unexpected? For starters, the band recorded it under a complete media blackout; aside from a few rumours things had been radio silent in the AC/DC camp for several years. More significant, of course, is the fact that since the end of the world tour in 2016, there has been the looming question of just who, or even , AC/DC is any more, with only two members – Angus and his nephew Stevie Young – remaining from the line-up that had recorded the album. The following year, of course, the band would suffer
