This series of caches is deadicated to some of the Heavy Metal - Hard Rock
bands that I have liked over the years from the 70s to 2000.
Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland,
and moved to Sydney with most of their family in 1963. George was the first
to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of the Easybeats, one of
Australia's most successful bands of the 1960s. In 1966, they became the first
local rock act to have an international hit, with the song "Friday on My Mind"
Malcolm followed in George's footsteps by playing with a Newcastle,
New South Wales band called the Velvet Underground (not to be confused with
the New York-based Velvet Underground). Their oldest brother Alex Young chose
to remain in Britain to pursue musical interests. In 1967, Alexander formed
and played bass in the London-based band Grapefruit—initially called
"The Grapefruit"—with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways,
John Perry, Geoff Swettenham, and Pete Swettenham.
The band's logo was designed in 1977 by Gerard Huerta, commissioned by Bob Defrin,
the art director at Atlantic Records during the 1970s. It first appeared on the
international version of Let There Be Rock.
Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the band's name after their sister,
Margaret Young, saw the initials "AC/DC" on a sewing machine. "AC/DC" is an
abbreviation meaning "alternating current/direct current" electricity.
The brothers felt that this name symbolised the band's raw energy, power-driven
performances of their music.[17][18] "AC/DC" is pronounced one letter at a time,
though the band are colloquially known as "Acca Dacca" in Australia.
The AC/DC band name is stylised with a lightning bolt separating the 'AC' and 'DC'
and has been used on all studio albums with the exception of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Origin Sydney, Australia
Years active 1973–present (2014)