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AUDIO: AC/DC's Angus Young (1990)

Martin Aston, Rock's Backpages audio, September 1990

The axe-wielding overgrown schoolboy talks about bunking off and missing his education; the music that got to him in his youth; rock in Australia, and the Australian audience's attitudes; ignoring the standard metal devil worship; the commercial ups-and-downs of the band; the songs on new album The Razor's Edge; rock as a release; the flashy American metal bands, and his avoidance of politics.

Read a transcript of this interview.

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