AC/DC - Behind-The-Scenes-Video Of Rolling Stone Cover Shoot Available
November 3, 2008, 16 years ago
As previously reported, after 27 years Rolling Stone magazine in the US has finally put AC/DC on the cover of their new October 30th issue. Their last major feature on the band appeared 28 years ago to the day, in their October 30th, 1980 issue.
Behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot can be viewed below:
An excerpt from the cover story reads as follows:
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson perches on the edge of a sofa in a New York hotel room with a blank look on his face, mumbling to himself in a grainy whisper, his head and shoulders drooping with exhaustion. There is nothing wrong with him. Johnson, a robust man who is built like a bear and who talks in a booming growl, is doing his imitation of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young on tour, backstage just before showtime.
"It's amazing, watching him in the dressing room," Johnson says with a raspy cackle through his thick northern-England accent. "He can be totally knackered, in the middle of a long stretch of shows, sitting there with a cigarette and a cup of tea." Johnson goes into that gnomish slouch. "Then it's, 'Twenty minutes, boys.' He gets up, hardly a word, disappears around a corner — and comes back in those clothes. He's got a fag in his mouth, a jaunty look on his face, his guitar slung on him."He's like Clark fucking Kent!" Johnson exclaims. "He goes into a phone booth and comes out as the 14-year-old imp, ready to rock!"
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