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Also known as Angus McKinnon Young

Australian guitarist

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Angus McKinnon Young is a male guitarist, songwriter, and composer who has been a member of the band AC/DC since 1973. Born in Glasgow, he holds citizenship in both Australia and the United Kingdom. His musical work is characterized by the hard rock, blues rock, and rock and roll genres, and he performs using a Gibson SG instrument. He works in Sydney and speaks English.

Young is the brother of Alexander, George, and Malcolm Young. His recorded works include *AC/DC - Guitar Signature Licks*. In interviews, he has described his performance style as getting up in front of a crowd to "rip it up," noting that he does not like to play above or below people's heads. He has also characterized his band as noisy, rowdy, sensational, and weird.

Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • Lazy Meal's Delicious Easy Recipes
  • Slow Cooking Perfected
  • Paleo Crash Course
  • Angus Young
  • AC/DC - Guitar Signature Licks

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Film & TV

Acting · Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Young was ranked 24th in Rolling Stone magazine's 100 greatest guitarists of all-time list.[1] In 2003,…

Known for

  • AC/DC : Forever Young — Self (archive footage)2023
  • Rock: the origin — Self (archive footage)2023
  • AC/DC: The Story of Back in Black — Self2020
  • The Great Satan — Self (archives footage)2018
  • Blood + Thunder: The Sound of Alberts — Self2015
  • ACDC - Documentation — Self2013
  • AC/DC: Dirty Deeds — Self2012
  • AC/DC Backtracks — Angus Young2009
  • AC/DC: Live at River Plate — Guitars2009
  • AC/DC: Live at Circus Krone2009

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Kangaroo Point
Active from
1955

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,083
Total plays
11,871

Tags

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Angus McKinnon Young (born March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a rock guitarist who has been a member of Australian hard rock band AC/DC since the group was formed in 1973. Angus is known for his hard-edge blues style lead (and signature vibrato), wild stage energy, and schoolboy clothing style. Angus started playing guitar when he was about five. Another kid who lived nearby had one, and Angus would come over and play on it. He got his own "guitar" by taking a banjo his ily had lying and t

via Last.fm · Angus Young

Quotes

  • I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
  • If it was happening, I'd call it Heavenly Beast. If it wasn't happening, I usually call it Arsehole.
  • I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
  • We want to appeal to everyone and get rich quick. We want to be millionaires. I've got this plan to buy Tasmania you see...
  • It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
  • We're a rock group. We're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.

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Encyclopedic overview

Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only continuous member of the hard rock band AC/DC. He is known for his energetic performances, school uniform-style stage outfits, and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Young was ranked 38th in the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all time list. In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Early life

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