Angus Young(I)
- Composer
- Actor
- Writer
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.
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.