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Slash performing live

Watch Guns N’ Roses cover AC/DC and revisit deep cuts for the first time in 30 years at first show of 2022 European tour

By Matt Owen published

Reckless Life and the Appetite for Destruction version of You're Crazy were performed for the first time in three decades, and were accompanied by a cover of AC/DC's Walk All Over You

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James Hetfield and a dulcimer

Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and AC/DC guitar riffs performed on obscure percussion instruments sounds surprisingly brilliant

By Matt Parker published

You didn’t know you needed a cover of AC/DC’s Thunderstruck on the slap-o-phone in your life… until today

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Angus Young performs with AC/DC at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 1983

AC/DC's Angus Young: "I liked the SGs because they were light. I tried Fenders but they were too heavy and they just didn't have the balls"

By Steven Rosen published

In his first GW interview from 1984, AC/DC's lead guitar dynamo discusses his beloved #1 SG and why you can't beat a Marshall hundred-watt stack

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(from left) Malcolm Young, Angus Young and Phil Rudd of AC/DC perform live in Munich, Germany

AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young: "Most of our early tracks speed up toward the end. After the guitar solo we’d start to take off!"

By Richard Bienstock published

In this classic Guitar World interview from 2003, the brothers Young revisit the albums and songs that made them guitar giants

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[L-R] Prince William and Angus Young

Prince William begins his week by listening to AC/DC's Thunderstruck

By Sam Roche published

“The first time I put it on I thought, ‘This is quite heavy’, but now, when I listen to it, it's the best tonic for a Monday morning,” the royal says

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(from left) Dave Grohl, H.E.R. and Wolfgang Van Halen

Foo Fighters, Mammoth WVH, AC/DC, Black Pumas, St. Vincent, H.E.R., Dream Theater nominated for Grammys

By Jackson Maxwell published

Chris Cornell, Deftones, Arlo Parks, Gojira, Mastodon, Weezer, Paul McCartney, Joe Bonamassa, Japanese Breakfast and Cedric Burnside were also among the nominees

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

10 essential Gibson SG albums

By Glenn Kimpton published

The solidbody double-cut with the instantly recognizable silhoeutte has graced some of the greatest recordings of all time

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Brian Johnson (C) from ACDC laughs with Dave Grohl (L) of US rock band the Foo Fighters as they perform onstage during the taping of the "Vax Live" fundraising concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on May 2, 2021

Watch pro-shot footage of AC/DC’s Brian Johnson tearing through Back in Black with the Foo Fighters

By Richard Bienstock published

Johnson joined the Foos onstage at Global Citizen’s Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World event

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Brian Johnson from ACDC performs with Dave Grohl (R) of the Foo Fighters during the taping of the "Vax Live" fundraising concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on May 2, 2021.

Watch snippet of AC/DC’s Brian Johnson performing Back in Black with the Foo Fighters at Vax Live concert

By Richard Bienstock published

The full event, which also features Eddie Vedder and H.E.R., will air May 8

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Malcolm Young

Malcolm Young: "We were going to get a keyboard player, but I got Angus instead"

By Matt Owen published

A recently unearthed interview sees the late AC/DC guitar great take a deep dive into his guitar-playing relationship with Angus

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