- Born
- Birth nameAngus McKinnon Young
- Nicknames
- The Guitar God
- A-Bomb
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Angus Young was born on March 31, 1955 in Glasgow, Scotland. At school, Angus was an unenthusiastic student. His only real academic interest was art which allowed him some freedom of expression. He gave up school at 15 and went to work for a soft porn magazine called Ribald as a printer. But his ambitions laid elsewhere anyway, and for a year prior to leaving school Angus had been practising guitar almost constantly, jamming around with friends and playing at school dances. In the beginning, Angus messed around with brother Malcolm Young's guitars for years before his mother finally bought him his own, a cheap little acoustic. By the time he was eleven Angus had flirted with a tutorial course, but he prefered to learn by himself and most of his musical education was pure trial and error. While his older brother Malcolm Young was hatching plans for his new band, Angus was well on his way toward establishing a distinctive stage persona. His seemingly out-of-control onstage body language has always come naturally. Such trademark Angus moves as his patented duckwalk could be handy attention-getting devices when playing for drunken, rowdy barroom crowds. Many of these gestures grew out of accidents.
One night Tantrum, the pre-AC/DC band Angus was playing with, was going down really badly. Angus walked across the stage and tripped over the guitar lead, so he kept running across the floor. He made it look like a death scene, screaming all hell from the guitar. It was the only clap they got that night. Angus told his brother about it. Malcolm Young asked him to join the band he was putting together.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- SpouseEllen(1980 - present)
- RelativesGeorge Young(Sibling)Malcolm Young(Sibling)
- The "Duck Walk", hopping on one foot while kicking the other outrepeatedly, a variation on a similar strut done by his idol Chuck Berry.
- Always uses Gibson sg guitars
- Wears a schoolboy uniform onstage
- Guitar riffs
- Wild stage antics
- Does not drink any alcoholic beverages.
- In Jul of 2001 he was voted Scotland's greatest guitarist in the "Total Guitar" Magazine poll of the best 12 British guitarists.
- His wife Ellen (married in 1980) is from the Netherlands.
- Lead guitarist for AC/DC
- We can't sit on our arses and say the world owes us a living because we've paid our dues. Me; I think if I fluff a note I'm robbing the kids. You're gonna pour it all on until you drop, so even if they hate you they can still say 'At least they tried'.
- I've always looked at it as a twelve-step-program rock 'n' roll band: each day at a time.
- Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse
- I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'
- 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.
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