Motortrend.com has an online spotlight on AC/DC singer Brian Johnson. Here is an excerpt:

These days, Johnson is rockin' a 2007 Rolls-Royce Phantom he bought a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, with his success since joining the band in 1980 with their megahit album "Back in Black," this is his first Rolls, which he rates an "absolute 10." Turning 61 this month made him reflect: "I came from a mining village and nobody had any money. I promised myself one day I would buy one. It's the best car I've ever had."

On a scale of one to 10, he wanted to give it a million rating. "I'm still trying to find out where the bloody boot [trunk] switch is!" he laughs. "The instruction book is about as heavy as the Ten Commandments. You could use it as a jack!"

He traded in his Bentley Continental, which he adored. "I still do love it because I fell in love with the Audi engine, you know the W12 twin-turbo. I loved it that much, I've ordered myself an Audi R8." The R8 should arrive in November. "I'll be on tour, which is bloody just about typical, isn't it?" he laughs.

Johnson wasn't in the market for a Rolls, but his friend, a car dealer, nudged him, "He said, 'Brian you've got to try it.' I said, 'It's too big. I love this Bentley.' He said, 'I'll send it down in a trailer for you and just have a drive.' Well, of course, he knew what he was doing, the sneaky bugger. As soon as I got in it, I fell in love with it."

"The first thing that took my breath away was when I put my foot down and I got to 60 in 5, I couldn't believe it!" he continues. "It's just so swift and comfy. Which is absolutely unlike my SWC3 race car that will just knock the living snot out of you when you're going down in Sebring."

He can't stop singing its praises. "It's just the dream. Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died," he says.

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