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LEFT: Pete Townshend performing live onstage July 31, 2004. RIGHT: Angus Young of AC/DC performs during their "Black Ice" Tour Opener on October 28, 2008 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Pete Townshend on the one thing that has kept Angus Young and AC/DC from evolving

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

The Who guitarist still called Young “one of my favorite guitar players” but used AC/DC to illustrate a point he'd been making ever since he built one of rock's first home studios

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Angus Young of AC/DC performs during the 2015 Coachella Valley Musica and Arts Festival at The Empire Polo Club on April 10, 2015 in Indio, California.
“That's the easiest part, the solos." Why Angus Young thinks rhythm guitar is harder to play than lead

By Jas Obrecht Published

The guitarist shared with us his favorite solos, but said “I never look at them as a solo thing. It’s our band. We all play together”

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Angus Young of AC/DC during Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto - Show at Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by KMazur/WireImage)
"What did we do when the record company asked us for a disco hit? We gave them Highway To Hell!" An archive interview with AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young

By Jude Gold Published

The secrets of Mutt Lange's production, Malcolm's pick-destroying strings, and why they're really just "two frustrated drummers": 20 years ago we sat down with AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young to look back over their amazing career

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AC/DC 'Back in Black' album artwork
Watch AC/DC’s Stunning ‘Back in Black’ Tour Footage

By Christopher Scapelliti Published

Video This unmissable concert film captures the band’s raw energy at a pivotal moment in rock and roll history

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915 - 1973) performs at a Blues and Gospel Caravan tour in the UK, 1964.
Favored by Angus Young, Pete Townshend and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Here’s How the Gibson SG Came to Be

By Mick Taylor Published

This classic electric guitar design has come to hold a unique place, both tonally and visually, in rock and roll history

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L-R: Chuck Berry, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Kurt Cobain
The 40 Most Important Guitar Solos of the 20th Century

By Guitar Player Staff Published

From bluesy beginnings to metallic peaks, we trace the evolution of the electric rock solo

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Australian guitarists and brothers Angus (L) and Malcolm Young of the hard rock group ACDC inaugurate 22 March 2000 the first street in the world bearing their group's name in Leganes, 29 kms from Madrid.
“I'm Just Like a Color Over the Top. He's the Solid Thing”: Angus Young on Malcolm Young and the Vital Chemistry of AC/DC

By Jas Obrecht, Rod Brakes Published

Read this classic Guitar Player interview with one half of the greatest guitar dueling brotherhood in hard rock history.

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AC/DC live in 1975
Watch Malcolm Young Trade Solos with Angus in this Storming Live AC/DC Clip from 1975

By Rod Brakes Published

Video Australia’s greatest rock 'n' roll band begins to conquer the world stage.

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Malcolm Young performs onstage with AC/DC at the Roseland Ballroom
Malcolm Young Using a Gibson in the Studio? It Happened on this AC/DC Song

By Jackson Maxwell Published

"To this day I still hear that track and go, 'Ugh,'" AC/DC's late rhythm guitar dynamo said of this tune in 2003.

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(from left) Eddie Van Halen, Angus Young, Ace Frehley, Brian May
How Brian May, Joe Perry, Eddie Van Halen, and More Re-Shaped Hard-Rock Guitar in the 1970s

By Guitar Player Staff Published

As hard-rock diversified and graduated from halls to arenas, these guitarists defined the sounds and styles of the '70s.

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