18 May

AC/DC preceded and played alongside punk and grunge, and were way rawer and harder than either of them. They make The Sex Pistols look like what they really were - a manufactured boy band pretending to be rebels. And they're not a metal band (they hate metal music), though they're often lumped in with the heavy metal crowd. And they were harder and rawer than any of the English legends like Zeppelin, Sabbath or Deep Purple. All along their hero? Chuck Berry. Such a misunderstood band. Ask them 50 times what they play, and you'll always get the same answer - 'we're a rock and roll band'. I honestly think they believe - rightly - that people no longer understand what that means. And is there somebody with a bigger stage presence than Angus Young?