AC/DC's ANGUS YOUNG: 'We Still Write Songs For 17-Year-Olds'

October 15, 2008

Telegraph.co.uk recently spoke to AC/DC guitarist Angus Young about the band's forthcoming album, "Black Ice", due out on October 20.

"All you need to know about AC/DC is this — we stopped growing musically when we were 17," Young said. "When you’re 17, you write songs that you hope will appeal to other 17-year-olds. And we still write songs for 17-year-olds."

Young has a "never-complain, never-explain" attitude to both the band's image and their eye-watering record sales.

"There's a lot of nonsense spoken about music today," he said. "For us it really is quite simple. We began by playing Chuck Berry covers. Every so often we would sneak in one of our own songs. We used to look at each other at the end of our own songs and say, 'I don't think they noticed.' So then we put a few more originals in. We went from the bars to slightly bigger venues and then over the years to arenas and all of that. One day, you look around and you find that you’ve sold 200 million albums."

Read the entire interview from Telegraph.co.uk.

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