Members:

Angus Young - Guitars
Malcolm Young - Guitars
Brian Johnson - Vocals
Cliff Williams - Bass
Phil Rudd - Drums

Born in Scotland, the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young moved with their family to Australia as children. Malcolm began playing guitar first, soon followed by Angus. Their older brother George had some success with his band The Easybeats, and asked the boys to do some session work for a project he was doing, that session work turned into the foundation of AC/DC.

AC/DC was formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973.

The name was suggested by their sister Margaret after she read it on a vacuum cleaner label.

The early lineups were changed often, but the enlistment of their driver Bon Scott as frontman signified the beginning of real success. On February 20, 1980, AC/DC hit what could have been a major road block. Tragedy struck when Bon Scott was found dead in the backseat of a friend's car. The coroner's report stated he had "drunk himself to death." The band had been getting ready to record their next album, so instead of just sitting around and worrying about their future, they hired singer Brian Johnson in March, and the very next month they went directly into the studio to work on their next album. Scott had already written 15 songs for the album before his death, but the band decided that they would start from scratch with Johnson. What they came up with in that short period of time was phenomenal, and when finished and released, Back in Black, titled to reflect Scott's loss, was a heavy metal masterpiece That album has now sold over 42 million copies and has become one of the biggest selling albums in rock history.

As the new century dawned, AC/DC was still going strong. In 2000 they released their 15th studio album, Stiff Upper Lip. In July, 2003, along with the Rolling Stones, they headlined and played in front of 450,000 people in Toronto, Canada. It was Canada's largest-ever rock concert.

After all of these years, the band is still one of rock's biggest acts.

Discography

• 1975 - T.N.T. (Australia)
• 1976 - High Voltage
• 1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (re-released in the U.S., 1981)
• 1977 - Let There Be Rock
• 1978 - Powerage
• 1978 - If You Want Blood (Live)
• 1979 - Highway to Hell
• 1980 - Back in Black
• 1981 - For Those About To Rock
• 1983 - Flick of the Switch
• 1984 - '74 Jailbreak (EP of old cuts)
• 1985 - Fly on the Wall
• 1986 - Who Made Who (soundtrack to the Stephen King movie 'Maximum *Overdrive')
• 1988 - Blow Up Your Video
• 1990 - The Razors Edge
• 1992 - Live  
• 1995 - Ballbreaker
• 1997 - Bonfire (tribute to Bon Scott including several discs of old cuts)
• 2000 - Stiff Upper Lip