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Angus Young and singer Brian Johnson at the band's performance in Melbourne
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The long wait is over: AC/DC, one of the most successful bands in music history, have announced that they want to go on tour again in the summer after a year-long break.
Last year, the quintet around guitarist Angus Young gave their fans a little foretaste. AC/DC returned to the stage at the Powertrip festival in California in October after a seven-year break. It was also the live comeback of singer Brian Johnson, who had to leave the group during a tour in 2016 due to hearing problems and was temporarily replaced by Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose. In 2020, AC/DC announced its return and released the album “Power Up”.
Appearances are also planned in Germany. In addition to Munich (June 9th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium), the rockers will be in Gelsenkirchen (May 17th and 21st), Dresden (June 16th), at the Hockenheimring (July 13th), in Stuttgart (July 17th) and Nuremberg (July 27th) and Hanover (July 31st) will give concerts (the entire tour overview can be found here).
Tour plans were initially put on hold in 2020 due to the corona pandemic. In an interview with the German Press Agency, Johnson expressed the hope that this would happen at some point. “We would love to give concerts again,” he said. "I hope so."
»I think AC/DC will fill the Olympic Stadium«
The rumors that AC/DC could return to the stage have been going on for a long time. Munich's mayor Dieter Reiter revealed at a council meeting in November that the Australians would perform in the Munich Olympic Stadium in June 2024. "It's possible that I revealed something, I didn't know it was so secret," said Reiter at the time when asked by Bayerischer Rundfunk. »I think AC/DC will fill the Olympic Stadium there.«
Of the five founding members, only Angus Young is still there. His brother Malcolm, also a founding member, died in 2017 as a result of dementia. Just a few weeks earlier, the older brother of the two AC/DC founders, George Young, had died. He was considered the band's mentor and achieved worldwide fame as the songwriter of the hit "Love Is in the Air." Only recently, Colin Burgess, the group's first drummer, died. Brian Johnson, the now 76-year-old singer, replaced Bon Scott in 1980, who died of alcohol poisoning.
The Australian hard rock band, founded in 1973, has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide, most of them in the USA. The album "Back in Black", released in July 1980, is still the second best-selling album in the world (only Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was sold more).
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