Original AC/DC Singer Says 'Clashing Personalities' Caused His Departure From Band

June 26, 2008

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, original AC/DC singer Dave Evans has dismissed as "bullshit" the version of his departure from the band published in the AC/DC "bible", Clinton Walker's "Highway To Hell". In the book, Walker calls Evans a "shameless exhibitionist in his position more for the way he looked than the way he sang." The group's guitarist, Angus Young, also recalls throwing Evans off the stage for his embarrassing drunken antics.

"It's all bullshit. A pack of lies," Evans said. "Can you imagine anyone throwing me, the King of all Badasses, off the stage? [Walker] never interviewed me and I wanted to strangle him."

From his home in Dallas, Evans gave his version of events.

"It was just a case of clashing personalities. We all had these young egos and we were like rams butting heads. In retrospect, I suppose I should have just shut up, but I was a strong personality," he said.

Read more from The Sydney Morning Herald.

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