The legendary hard-rock band gave their very first concert on December 31, 1973 at Checkers Nightclub in Sydney, Australia. A major European tour, with a French date, will celebrate AC/DC’s fiftieth anniversary.
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AC/DC, absent on stage on the Old Continent for eight years, returns for a European tour in 2024 with Brian Johnson on vocals, the Australian group announced on Monday February 12. This tour stretches from May 17 in Germany to August 17 in Ireland, including a visit to France on August 13 at the Paris Longchamp Hippodrome. Tickets will go on sale for this date on Friday February 16 at 10 a.m. Paris time.
This tour is called Power Up, named after their last studio album in 2020, which ranked number one in around twenty countries upon its release. Brian Johnson sang on this record, although he was replaced on stage 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 equipment.
200 million records sold
The other figure in the group is guitarist Angus Young, 68, still dressed in his retro school uniform. He is the repository of the standard riffs Highway To Hell, Thunderstruck And Back In Black. The face of AC/DC is him too. Angus Young poses on the cover of Highway To Hell (1979) with imp horns, a find still exploited 45 years later by the merchandising around the group.
The group, whose very first concert took place on December 31, 1973 at Checkers Nightclub in Sydney, Australia, sold a total of more than 200 million records in their career. The history of AC/DC – name in reference to alternating current, but also “by sail and steam” in slang – is tumultuous. The first singer, Bon Scott died in 1980 and Malcolm Young – guitarist and co-founder of the group with his brother Angus (Scots based in Australia) – died in 2017.
