AC/DC Zone Forums: Author: AC/DC Illustrated History Shows the Human Side of the Band - AC/DC Zone Forums

What was the most poignant thing you learned about the band while doing the research?

Poignant is a good word to introduce when thinking about AC/DC because it's easy to imagine they're a bunch of hard nut Aussies, almost superhuman and unfeeling. No way, so I like the human side of thinking about those Young boys as immigrants in a strange land, Australia, when they'd just flown in from Scotland to make a better life; the story of Bon Scott finding his way through from a kind of lost childhood and mid-20s, and then the tragedy of his death; the astonishing way the band came together again after that, encouraged by Bon's dad and then "saved" by discovering such a kindred spirit as Brian; Malcolm's iron-willed recognition that he had an alcohol problem and self-motivated recovery from it; the ups and downs of Phil Rudd, a rock of a drummer but clearly a fragile man in some ways ... Everything that says these are real human beings getting through all that to bring us all those good-times-rolling nights for almost 40 years.