ANGUS YOUNG
Angus Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. At school, Angus was an
unenthusiastic student. His only real academic interest was art wich allowed him some freedom of
expression. He gave up school at 15 and went to work for a soft porn magazine called Ribald
as a printer.
But his ambitions laid elsewhere anyway, and for a year prior to leaving school Angus had been
practising guitar almost constantly, jamming around with friends and playing at school dances. In the
beginning, Angus messed around with Malcolm's guitars for years before his mother finally bought
him his own, a cheap little acoustic. By the time he was eleven Angus had flirted with a
tutorial course, but he prefered to learn by himself and most of his musical education was pure trial
and error.
While his older brother Malcolm was hatching plans for his new band, Angus was well on his way
toward establishing a distinctive stage persona. His spasmodic, seemingly out-of-control
onstage body language has always come naturally. Such trademark Angus moves as his patented
duckwalk and his on-the-floor body spasms could be handy attention-getting devices when playing
for drunken, rowdy barroom crowds. Many of these gestures grew out of accidents.
One night Tantrum, the pre-AC/DC band Angus was playing with, was going down really badly.
Angus walked across the stage and tripped over the guitar lead, so he felt like a dick and he
kept running across the floor. He made it look like a death scene, screaming all hell from the
guitar. It was the only applause they got that night. Angus told his brother about it. Malcolm asked
him to join the band he was putting together. The rest is history.
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