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Malcolm Young

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Malcolm Mitchell Young (6 January 1953 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as a co-founder, rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and songwriter for the hard rock band AC/DC. [1]

73 relations: AC/DC, Albert Productions, Alexander Young (musician), Angus Young, Artificial cardiac pacemaker, Atlantic Records, Attentional control, Black Ice (album), Black Ice World Tour, Black Sabbath, Blow Up Your Video World Tour, Blues, Blues rock, Bon Scott, Brian Johnson, Buddy Holly, Burwood, New South Wales, Chuck Berry, Cliff Williams, Colin Burgess (musician), Cranhill, Dave Evans (singer), Dave Mustaine, Dementia, Distortion (music), Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, EMI Records, Epic Records, Evie (song), Forever Malcolm Young, Frenzal Rhomb, Gain (electronics), Geezer Butler, George Young (rock musician), Glasgow, Grapefruit (band), Gretsch G6131, Guitar Player, Hard rock, Harry Vanda, James Hetfield, Larry Van Kriedt, Lung cancer, Maiden and married names, Marcus Hook Roll Band, Marshall Amplification, Megadeth, Metallica, National Archives of Australia, Newcastle, New South Wales, ..., Nissen hut, Open chord, Ostinato, Ozzy Osbourne, Power chord, Punk rock, Rainbow (rock band), Rock and roll, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock or Bust, Rock or Bust World Tour, Royal Air Force, St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, Stevie Wright, Stevie Young, Sydney, Tales of Old Grand Daddy, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Velvet Underground, University of New South Wales, Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom, World War II. Expand index (23 more) »

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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Albert Productions

Albert Productions, a division of music publishing and recording company Albert Music, is one of Australia's longest established independent record labels to specialise in rock and roll music.

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Alexander Young (musician)

Alexander Young (28 December 1938 – 4 August 1997), also known as George Alexander, was a Scottish singer, songwriter, saxophonist, bassist, guitarist and session musician.

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Angus Young

Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian guitarist, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter and only remaining original member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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Artificial cardiac pacemaker

A pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the heart's natural pacemaker) is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to contract the heart muscles and regulate the electrical conduction system of the heart.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Attentional control

Attentional control refers to an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore.

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Black Ice (album)

Black Ice is the 15th studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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Black Ice World Tour

Black Ice World Tour was a 2008–2010 concert tour by Australian rock band AC/DC, in support of their fifteenth studio album Black Ice (2008).

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Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.

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Blow Up Your Video World Tour

The Blow Up Your Video World Tour was a rock concert tour played by the hard rock band AC/DC, which had 5 legs spreading over the course of 11 months starting on 29 January 1988, in Perth, Australia and finishing on 13 November 1988, in Inglewood, California.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre combining elements of blues and rock.

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Bon Scott

Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott (9 July 1946 – 19 February 1980) was an Australian singer and songwriter, best known for being the lead vocalist and lyricist of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC from 1974 until his death in 1980.

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Brian Johnson

Brian Francis Johnson (born 5 October 1947) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.

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Burwood, New South Wales

Burwood is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Chuck Berry

Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.

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Cliff Williams

Clifford Williams (born 14 December 1949) is a retired English musician who was a member of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC as their bassist and backing vocalist from 1977 to 2016.

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Colin Burgess (musician)

Colin John Burgess (born 16 November 1946) is an Australian musician who was a drummer in the rock group The Masters Apprentices from 1968 to 1972 and was the original drummer for hard rockers AC/DC (November 1973–February 1974).

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Cranhill

Cranhill is an inner city district and housing scheme in the north east of the Glasgow, Scotland.

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Dave Evans (singer)

Dave Evans (born 20 July 1953) is a Welsh-born Australian singer.

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Dave Mustaine

David Scott Mustaine (born September 13, 1961) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, actor and author.

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Dementia

Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales

Elizabeth Bay is a harbourside suburb in eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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EMI Records

EMI Records was a British record label founded by the music company of the same name in 1972 as its flagship label, and launched in January 1973 as the successor to its Columbia and Parlophone record labels.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Evie (song)

"Evie" is an Australian rock song released as a single in 1974 by Australian singer and former frontman of The Easybeats, Stevie Wright.

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Forever Malcolm Young

Forever Malcolm Young is the title of the 2006 album by the Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb.

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Frenzal Rhomb

Frenzal Rhomb is an Australian punk rock band that formed in 1992, with Jason Whalley on lead vocals and rhythm guitar during this entire period.

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Gain (electronics)

In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a two-port circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal.

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Geezer Butler

Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is an English musician and songwriter.

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George Young (rock musician)

George Redburn Young (6 November 194622 October 2017) was a Scottish-Australian musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Grapefruit (band)

Grapefruit were a London-based British band of the late 1960s, brought together by Terry Doran of Apple Publishing.

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Gretsch G6131

The Gretsch G6131, or popularly known as the Gretsch Jet Firebird, is a guitar made by Gretsch.

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Guitar Player

Guitar Player is an American popular magazine for guitarists, founded in 1967 in San Jose, California, United States.

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Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements.

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Harry Vanda

Harry Vanda (born Johannes Hendrikus Jacob van den Berg on 22 March 1946) is a Dutch-born Australian musician, songwriter and record producer.

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James Hetfield

James Alan Hetfield (born August 3, 1963) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter known for being the co-founder, lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist, and main songwriter for the American heavy metal band Metallica.

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Larry Van Kriedt

Larry Van Kriedt (born c.1954) was the first bassist with rock band AC/DC.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Marcus Hook Roll Band

Marcus Hook Roll Band were an Australian rock group formed by Harry Vanda and George Young.

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Marshall Amplification

Marshall Amplification is an English company that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, speaker cabinets, brands personal headphones and earphones, and, having acquired Natal Drums, drums and bongos.

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Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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National Archives of Australia

The National Archives of Australia is an Australian Government agency that collects, preserves and encourages access to important Australian Government records.

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Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas.

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Nissen hut

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure for military use, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel.

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Open chord

In music for stringed instruments, especially guitar, an open chord (open-position chord) is a chord that includes one or more strings that are not fingered.

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Ostinato

In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.

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Ozzy Osbourne

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (also known as The Prince of Darkness) (born 3 December 1948) is an English singer, songwriter and actor.

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Power chord

In guitar music, especially electric guitar, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a colloquial name for a chord that consists of the root note and the fifth.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Rainbow (rock band)

Rainbow (also known as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow or Blackmore's Rainbow) is a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, active from 1975 until 1984, 1993 until 1997, and 2015 until present.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rock or Bust

Rock or Bust is the 16th studio album by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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Rock or Bust World Tour

Rock or Bust World Tour was a 2015–2016 concert tour by Australian rock band AC/DC, in support of their sixteenth studio album Rock or Bust (2014).

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney

The Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians (colloquially, St Mary's Cathedral) is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the seat of the Archbishop of Sydney, currently.

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Stevie Wright

Stephen Carlton "Stevie" Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015), formerly billed as Little Stevie, was an English-born musician and songwriter who has been called Australia's first international pop star.

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Stevie Young

Stephen Crawford Young (born 11 December 1956) is a Scottish musician, and the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the Australian hard rock band AC/DC.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Tales of Old Grand Daddy

Tales of Old Grand Daddy is the only album released by the Marcus Hook Roll Band, in Australia in 1973.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).

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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW; branded as UNSW Sydney) is an Australian public research university located in the Sydney suburb of Kensington.

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Villawood Immigration Detention Centre

Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) is an Australian immigration detention facility located in the suburb of Villawood in Sydney, Australia.

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Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom

The winter of 1962–1963 (also known as the Big Freeze of 1963) was one of the coldest winters on record in the United Kingdom.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Young

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