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A composite picture of Frank Zappa wearing a stars and stripes hat and AC/DC’s Angus Young holding up a guitar

“He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC

By Classic Rock published

The story of AC/DC’s most unlikely famous fan

Bands & Artists
AC/DC’s Brian Johnson and Angus Young performing onstage in 1988

How AC/DC swam against the 80s hair metal tide and made an underrated gem in Blow Up Your Video

By Ken McIntyre published

AC/DC’s 1988 album Blow Up Your Video was a tipping point for the hard rock icons – and for guitarist Malcolm Young in particular

Bands & Artists
Brian Johnson onstage with Geordie in 2001

Rare video of AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson singing Toto's classic Hold The Line has gone viral

By Fraser Lewry published

The footage was shot in 2001, as the AC/DC frontman played a series of low-key shows and recorded covers of two traditional folk songs

Tracks & Singles
The crowd at the Monsters Of Rock festival

The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all

By Dave Everley published

The triumphs, the bottlings, the rucks, the rain – long-running festival Monsters Of Rock changed hard rock and heavy metal forever

Interviews
Angus Young, Lemmy and Ritchie Blackmore

The greatest year in heavy metal history, revisited

By Malcolm Dome published

A look back at 12 memorable months for loud music

Bands & Artists
Dua Lipa in 2024 and AC/DC in 2024

Watch Dua Lipa cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell during tour stop in Australia

By Matt Mills published

Watch one of Britain’s biggest pop stars lay down a stunning rock vocal on the first night of her 2025 Radical Optimism tour

Tracks & Singles
Van halen taking a bow

Test your rock knowledge with this week's Classic Rock Quiz

By Tom Poak published

20 questions to test your rock knowledge

Culture
Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones playing guitar

The Classic Rock Quiz

By Tom Poak published

12 questions to test your rock knowledge

Culture
AC/DC’s Angus Young holding a guitar

The story of AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 50 million-selling album that emerged from tragedy

By Geoff Barton published

How AC/DC recovered from the death of iconic singer Bon Scott to make the biggest rock album ever

Albums
Bon Scott studio portrait

The rebellious making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler

By Mick Wall published

45 years on from the death of AC/DC singer Bon Scott, we look back at the greatest rock’n’roll frontman of them all

Biographies
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