A unique record of the formative years of one of the world's biggest rock bands.Written by an
Australian author with an insider's perspective on AC DC.A beautifully produced collectible
edition illustrated throughout with rare images.To fans and critics alike the years 1973 to
1979 - the Bon Scott era - are the most significant of AC DC's five-decade career. In a
prolific and frequently brilliant run they recorded six studio albums established a diehard
fan base that stretched from Australia to the UK Europe to North America toured relentlessly
and created no small amount of controversy and chaos.Illustrated throughout with rare
photographs from the era this book documents all the key events of this frenetic time
beginning with the band's very first shows in the bloodhouses of suburban Sydney - even before
the name AC DC had been dreamed up by Margaret Young Malcolm and Angus's big sister - and
culminating with 1979's Highway to Hell the album that paved the way for the mammoth success
of Back in Black and all that was to follow and the untimely death of Bon Scott both an end
and a new beginning for the band.
