AC/DC guitarist revisits Scottish roots

By Domenica Goduto

LEGENDARY AC/DC Scots rocker Angus Young is planning to return to his roots in a Glasgow housing estate when his band plays at Hampden Park on Tuesday.

Young wants to visit the scheme at Cranhill in the city’s east end, where he lived before moving with his family to Australia in 1963 when the rock star was just eight years old.

In a weekend interview, Young joked about renaming the area “Angusland” and emblazoning his band’s distinctive “thunderflash” logo on the water tower overlooking the estate.

He said: “I might drive up to the water tower and put my flag up – it would be just like the Hollywood sign.”

Angus and his brother Malcolm founded the band and rose to global fame ten years after their father moved the family abroad in his quest to find work. Continue reading

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