Youngs : The Brothers Who Built Ac/Dc (9781466865204) (43 page)

Currenti

“Evie”

“Good Times”

“Hells Bells”

heroin addiction

Mark Evans

Sydney Opera House (1974)

2SM Concert of the Decade

the Youngs

The Wrights (supergroup)

WTAC

Wyman, Bill

 

Y

Yannuzzi, Joseph
see
Anthony, Joe

Yasgar, Larry

“Yesterday's Hero”

Yothu Yindi

“You Ain't Got a Hold on Me”

“You Shook Me All Night Long”

“You Shook Me All Night Long” (film clip)

Young, Alex

Young, Alex, Jr

Young, Angus

as Australian

cars

the fans

Gibson SG

“Jailbreak”

John Proud

lead guitar

Leber

lyric writing

Malcolm and

“Riff Raff”

role in AC/DC

“Thunderstruck”

Young, George
see also
Vanda & Young

as “angel”

co-songwriting with Wright

in The Easybeats

“Evie”

“Good Times” cover

“High Voltage”

“Jailbreak”

mastering

musical talent

psychological techniques

The Razors Edge

role in AC/DC

as songwriter

Young, John Paul

Young, Malcolm

Angus and

as Australian

Back in Black

Dave Evans

“Evie”

Gretsch Falcon

Gretsch Firebird

illness

“It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)”

“Jailbreak”

John Proud

Leber

lyric writing

Mark Evans

Powerage

rhythm guitar

role in AC/DC

Young, Margaret and William (parents)

Young, Margaret (sister)

Young, Monica

Young, Stevie

Young, Stevie, Sr

Young, Stewart

Young, Yvette

Younger, Rob

the Youngs

as AC/DC

class consciousness

erudition

family orientation

fist fights

Glasgow

“It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)”

privacy

sense of humor

toughness

wariness of management

Wright

Yunupingu, Mandawuy

 

Z

Zomba Group

ZZ Top

“Bon [Scott] got some of his performance characteristics from Stevie,” says former Rose Tattoo guitarist Rob Riley. Stevie Wright responds humbly: “I find it hard to believe because he was so good that I admired him.” Wright's three-part 1974 epic, “Evie,” written by Harry Vanda and George Young, was a runaway hit in Australia but didn't take off in America.

AC/DC and Stevie Wright session drummer Tony Currenti takes a cigarette break at his pizzeria in Penshurst, Sydney. Currenti played most of the drums on 1975's
High Voltage
. He taught himself how to play drums by bashing whatever he could find with spoons.
INSET:
Currenti (
BELOW
) as a child in Italy.

Bon Scott (
LEFT
) in London, 1976, with AC/DC manager Michael Browning (
CENTER
) and the routinely misidentified Australian radio personality Ken Evans (
RIGHT
), program director for Radio Luxembourg and formerly of pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio Atlanta.

American radio's first champion of AC/DC, Jacksonville's Bill Bartlett (
CENTER
), with fellow DJ Lee Walsh (
LEFT
) and visiting 2JJ Sydney station coordinator Ron Moss (
RIGHT
). Moss headed 2JJ when Holger Brockmann played “It's a Long Way to the Top” on radio for the first time anywhere in the world. And Brockmann didn't just play the song once. He loved it so much that he played it
five
times in a row.

Mark Evans fitted so well aesthetically and musically with AC/DC but was dramatically sacked by the Youngs in 1977, just before the band's first tour of the United States. “It's like a divorce,” he says. “Not only does your employment change but because you're living with the guys in the band your whole lifestyle changes. It was a wrench.”

Designer Gerard Huerta with the AC/DC logo commissioned solely for the U.S. release of
Let There Be Rock
. He has not received any royalties for the logo's subsequent use on other AC/DC albums or in AC/DC merchandise.

The original artwork, which was inspired by the letterforms of the Gutenberg Bible. Says Huerta: “It is the only piece of lettering I have done that is made entirely of straight lines.”

All eyes on the “atomic microbe” during the recording of
Live From the Atlantic Studios
, New York City, 1977.
ALSO PICTURED:
Atlantic promotion executive Judy Libow (
THIRD FROM LEFT AT FRONT
), radio program director and future MTV founder Robert Pittman (
RIGHT OF LIBOW
), AC/DC's U.S. publisher Barry Bergman (
BEHIND BON SCOTT, IN GLASSES
), Atlantic promotion executive Perry Cooper (
BEHIND ANGUS YOUNG
), and Philadelphia DJ Ed Sciaky (
RIGHT OF
COOPER
).