If there’s a single band that is the great galvaniser, then surely it’s AC/DC. Case in point: they’re about the only bandHQ and is happy. There’s just something so tremendously loved and right about the Antipodean heroes. From Angus and Malcolm’s guitars, to the thunderous rhythm section, to Bon or Brian (or, if we’re being completely honest, Axl, on stage a few years back), they’ve seldom put a foot wrong. And it’s not just the team who wholeheartedly appreciate their genius. This issue, to celebrate the 50th-anniversary year of their formation, we spoke to the great and good of rock to try to nail why and how AC/DC are so universally admired – and hear a few tales of close encounters of the ’DC kind.
