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The Australian band AC/DC, absent from the Old Continent for eight years, will return in 2024 for a European tour with Brian Johnson on vocals, the group announced this Monday.

Seville is the only Spanish city that will have the band on May 29, at the La Cartuja stadium, which will be the fourth concert of the tour after two of the nine performances planned in Germany and one in Italy. .

The tour will run

from May 17 in Germany to August 17

in Ireland, and will include a stop in France on August 13 at the Paris-Longchamp Hippodrome (tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Paris time).

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The tour is titled

Power Up

, in honor of their last studio album from 2020, which reached

number one in around twenty countries when it was released.

Brian Johnson sang on this album, although he had been replaced onstage in 2016 behind the microphone by Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses due to hearing problems.

Brian Johnson, 76, now uses state-of-the-art hearing aids.

The other key figure in the band is

guitarist Angus Young, 68

, who still wears his retro school uniform. He is the man behind the riffs on standards

Highway To Hell

,

Thunderstruck

and

Back In Black.

He is also the face of AC/DC. Angus Young poses on the cover of

Highway To Hell

(1979) with the horns of a devil, an idea that is still used 45 years later on the

band's

merchandising .

The band has

sold more than 200 million records

in their career.

This European tour is part of the

50th anniversary of the band

, which gave its first concert on December 31, 1973 at the Checkers nightclub in Sydney (Australia).

The history of AC/DC - referring to alternating current, but also slang for "sail and steam" - is tumultuous. The first singer, Bon Scott, died in 1980 and Malcolm Young - guitarist and co-founder of the band in 1973 with his brother Angus (Scots living in Australia) - died in 2017.