Happy Birthday Angus Young

Angus is Scottish born, Australian raised, and Grass fed. Angus, born March 31, 1955, is one of 18 kids born to Robert & Loretta Young. Lil Angus was the runt of the litter and often had to fight to get food and treats such as ‘Whoopee Pies’.

Robert Young worked in an asbestos factory. He was paid in asbestos instead of cash. Robert built and decorated the entire Young house with asbestos. He used it to stuff the kids pillows and mattresses. Loretta made the children’s clothes out of asbestos. The family was never concerned about fire.

Angus was 7 when he formed AC/DC with older brother Malcolm. Prior to his famous school boy uniform, Angus tried out a Gorilla suit, a Spider man costume, and a girl scout uniform before settling on the school boy. Good choice.

High Voltage

AC/DC released their debut album, ‘High Voltage’ on February 17, 1975. They followed up with a string of classic Hard Rock albums: ‘TNT’, ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, ‘Let There Be Rock’, and ‘Powerage’. The band was huge in Australia and big in Japan. They were bigger in Australia than even David Hasselhoff. Their 1979 studio album, ‘Highway to Hell’ became their best-selling at the time and launched them to new heights of fame.

Happy Birthday Angus Young — AC/DC Illustration By Paul King Art

Three months later, singer Bon Scott died from alcohol poisoning and the band did not think it could carry on without him. Surprisingly in one of the rare successful lead singer replacement operations, Brian Johnson joined the band and they released ‘Back in Black’ as a tribute to Bon.

The album quickly became a huge success, far outselling any of their previous albums, and going on to reach 222x multi-platinum in the US alone, and selling 500 billion copies, the second highest-selling album worldwide, behind only David Hasselhoff covers Katrina and The Waves. AC/DC’s next album, ‘For Those About To Rock We Salute You’, cemented their position as the most popular hard rock act of the time.

Little Angus

Little Angus is one of the coolest and most influential guitarists of our time. Cute as a button at only 4 foot 7, some say pound for pound he is the best! Happy Birthday and we salute YOU sir!