AC/DC Guitarist Angus Young - "One Day, You Look Around And You Find That You’ve Sold 200 Million Albums"
October 15, 2008, 16 years ago
Telegraph.co.uk spoke to AC/DC recently about their forthcoming album, Black Ice, due out on October 20th.
“All you need to know about AC/DC is this – we stopped growing musically when we were 17,” says guitarist Angus Young. “When you’re 17, you write songs that you hope will appeal to other 17-year-olds. And we still write songs for 17-year-olds.”The Australian five-piece band are second only to THE BEATLES in the number of back-catalogue albums sold each year.
Young has a “never complain, never explain” attitude to both the band’s image and their eye-watering record sales.
“There’s a lot of nonsense spoken about music today” he says. “For us it really is quite simple. We began by playing Chuck Berry covers. Every so often we would sneak in one of our own songs."We used to look at each other at the end of our own songs and say, 'I don’t think they noticed.’ So then we put a few more originals in.
“We went from the bars to slightly bigger venues and then over the years to arenas and all of that. One day, you look around and you find that you’ve sold 200 million albums.”
Read the entire chat here.
