AC/DC

Video: 'Let There Be Rock' features the band in a 1980 Porsche 928 racing a bi-plane. As of 2004 she is reported to working on an album of new material. Former Members. Arena completed her contract with Sony Music in early 2004, with a "Greatest Hits" album to be released marking the end of her association with them. Current Members. The song was one of the year's longest running hits on the Billboard Magazine Club Charts where it reached number one. One country music band has named themselves Hayseed Dixie, as a parody of the AC/DC name. In 2003 she was recruited by techno DJ Ray Roc to sing on his single "Never (Past Tense)".

The name AC/DC is pronounced one letter at a time, although the band is also known to its Australian fans as "Acca Dacca". Later that year she received a lifetime achievement ARIA Award for her career achievement, with the award also specifically recognising her success in France. It is near Swanston Street, the location where the band recorded their 1975 video "It's a Long Way to the Top". Also in 2000, she performed to the largest audience of her career at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. On 1 October 2004 Melbourne's Corporation Lane was officially renamed ACDC Lane in honour of the band (street names in the City of Melbourne cannot contain the "/" character). In 2000, Arena was invited to perform the role of Esmerelda in the West End production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in London. Some have suggested that the name stood for "Anti-Christ/ Devil Children"; though this is certainly not the case, the rumour has long persisted both among conservatives who, already disliking the band's image, use it to paint the band as Satanists, and among some fans who, especially in the 1980s, enjoyed the counter-cultural offense such a meaning would cause. Her 1999 album Just Me was a moderate success and included such hit singles as "Soul Mate #9", "Dare You To Be Happy" and "Symphony of Life".

The term has a bisexual connotation that they were supposedly unaware of at the time, a perception that was exacerbated by the "glam rock" image of other bands at the time, such as Alice Cooper, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Gary Glitter, and Queen. A repackaged version of the In Deep album including the new French versions, and a cover version of the Edith Piaf song "Les Trois Cloches" was a major hit throughout Europe and reached number 3 in France. The name "AC/DC" (alternating current/direct current) was suggested by their sister Margaret after she read it on an electric sewing machine's label. During this period her greatest successes were these French recordings and they were major hits in France. 2003 also saw the Recording Industry Association of America certify the classic Back in Black album as Double Diamond (20,000,000) sales in the US. This song was highly successful in Europe, and Arena embraced European culture, recording several songs in French and relocating temporarily to France. On July 30, 2003, the band gave an amazing performance at Sarsfest in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with The Rolling Stones before an audience of 500,000 to help the city overcome the effects of the 2003 SARS epidemic. During this time she recorded the theme song for the film The Mask of Zorro, a duet with Marc Anthony titled "I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You".

Along side Malcolm, Angus, Phil, Cliff and Brian were two of Bon Scott's nephews and in a brief acceptance the band again thanked the fans for their support. In Deep was the highest selling Australian album of the year. In March 2003 the walls at New York's historic Waldorf Astoria hotel shook as AC/DC performed Highway To Hell during part of their induction to the American Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame. Her next album In Deep (1997), produced by Foreigner's Mick Jones contained a cover version of their hit "I Want To Know What Love Is" (with backing vocals by the song's original vocalist Lou Gramm) and another major hit single "Burn". sales figures, increasing their cumulative sales from 46.5 million to 63 million, making AC/DC the fifth-best-selling band in U.S. music history, behind The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Eagles. After more than twenty years she was finally accepted as a credible performer by both the record buying public and the Australian music industry. In 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America upgraded the group's U.S. The album won Arena five ARIA Awards for "Album of the Year", "Song of the Year" ("Chains"), "Pop Release of the Year" ("Chains") and "Best Female Vocalist", as well as a special award for "Highest Selling Female Artist in Australian History".

In 2002, Q magazine named AC/DC as one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Other hits followed in Australia and Europe, including "Heaven Help My Heart", "Wasn't It Good" and "Sorrento Moon". Over the next eight years, the Young brothers and Johnson wrote nearly all of their songs, but in 1990, with Brian Johnson committed elsewhere, it was left to the Young brothers to carry on the creation of the group's music, while Johnson assumed all the vocals, lead and background, a feat unable to be duplicated in the band's live concerts (in the same manner Freddie Mercury's overdubbed vocal style could never have been duplicated when he and his band Queen toured live). Arena's career was said to be a priority of record executive Tommy Mottola who envisioned her achieving the level of success of Céline Dion or Mariah Carey, but the album failed to sell well in the US, and Mottola moved on to other projects. This became their biggest-selling album to date, a hard-rock landmark that would ultimately be named in tribute to Bon. The song also reached the Top 10 in the United Kingdom and Top 40 in the United States. Shortly after, the band brought in a new lead singer—Brian Johnson, formerly of the band Geordie—completed the song-writing and began recording Back_in_Black. It became one of the highest selling albums of the year in Australia and provided her with her first substantial hit single "Chains".

He died from both choking on his own vomit and hypothermia (Ozzy Osbourne would later write and record a song about Scott's death, the widely misinterpreted "Suicide Solution"). After signing a contract with Sony Music, Arena released the album Don't Ask in 1994. In 1980, Angus and Malcolm had begun working on the music and guitar riffs for their forthcoming new album when after a night of hard drinking, Bon Scott was found in the back seat of his friend's car. Despite the success of the further singles, "The Machine's Breaking Down" and the Diane Warren title track, the album failed to establish her as a major act, and she relocated to the United States. The band were also a pivotal influence to the then emerging New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene, with artists such as Def Leppard and Saxon clearly displaying simililarities to the trademark sound of AC/DC. The contrast between her adult image and that of the seven year old child she had been when she first became famous attracted considerable publicity in Australia, but some elements of the media insisted that she was little more than a novelty act. Their meaty hard-rock sound and Bon Scott's provocative, leering stage persona are also reputed to have been significant influences on Johnny Rotten and The Sex Pistols. Her album Strong as Steel, released in 1990, contained one major hit single, the uptempo dance track, "I Need Your Body", whose accompanying video demonstrated Arena as a sexy and confident adult.

showing his buttocks) to the audience and the group was banned from several British venues because of this. Arena persevered, playing nightclubs in Melbourne and in several stage musicals, before finally being offered a contract. They gained a solid cult following in the UK with their powerful performances and outrageous stage antics; Angus Young quickly became notorious for mooning (i.e. She was invited to support Lionel Richie on his Australian tour, but despite this success and the profile it gave her, record companies were unwilling to offer her a recording contract. They survived the punk rock upheavals of 1976-78, partly because they were (erroneously) tagged as a punk band by the British music press. Like most of the children who left the show, Arena carried with her a stigma that made it difficult to be taken seriously as an adult vocalist, and for a short time she contemplated ending her career, and found employment with an insurance company. Ozzy and Bon stayed in contact however. As one of the show's youngest performers, Arena's nine year stint was also one of the show's longest.

The incident was quickly resolved without conflict, and the conjoined tour promptly ended. The show's policy was to promote talented children, and at the age of sixteen team members would leave, ostensibly to follow an adult career. Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath's Bassist), in a drunken rage, pulled a knife on Malcolm. Often billed as "Tiny Tina Arena", she was seen on weekly television singing and dancing the current pop hits. Rhythm Guitarist Malcolm Young once recalled in AC/DC's VH1 Behind the Music Series an incident from an England tour with Black Sabbath. As a child Arena attracted attention for the power of her voice, which was considered remarkable for such a young child. Relocating to London in the late 1970s, they worked all over the UK and Europe to establish themselves, touring almost constantly and gaining invaluable experience on the stadium circuit supporting the top hard-rock acts of the day including Alice Cooper, Rush, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Boston, Black Sabbath, Cheap Trick, Heart, The Scorpions, Molly Hatchet, Ronnie Montrose, Nazareth, UFO, Journey, Foreigner, Van Halen, Styx, Blue Öyster Cult, Alvin Lee, Rainbow, Savoy Brown, REO Speedwagon, The Doobie Brothers, Thin Lizzy and The Who. Her career began at the age of seven when she was selected as a regular performer for the music television program Young Talent Time.

Between 1974 and 1978, aided by regular appearances on the nationally-broadcast TV pop show Countdown, AC/DC became one of the most popular and successful acts in Australia, scoring a string of hits albums and singles including their perennial 1975 rock anthem "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)". Tina Arena (born Filippina Lydia Arena on November 1, 1967, in Melbourne, Australia) is a pop singer. The early lineups changed often, but the 1974 enlistment of charismatic singer Ronald "Bon" Scott as their driving frontman signified the beginning of real success. Another vital innovation was Angus Young's adoption of his now-famous school uniform as a regular stage outfit; the original was reputedly Angus' real uniform from his secondary school, Ashfield Boys' High, in Sydney. Greatest Hits 1994-2004 (2004). After The Velvet Underground, Malcolm decided to form a more pure rock and roll band, and enlisted Angus and they were soon signed to the new Albert label, and Vanda & Young produced their first seven LPs. Vous Etes Toujours La (2002). Angus then formed a band called Tantrum. If I Was a River (2002).

Young asked the boys to do some session work for a project he was doing (The Marcus Hook Roll Band). Just Me (2001). After Young and his Easybeats partner Harry Vanda returned to Australia in late 1973, they became the house producers for the newly-formed Albert Productions record label whose owner, Ted Albert (a scion of the venerable Albert & Sons music publishing family), had been the Easybeats' producer between 1965 and 1967. Souvenirs 2000. Their older brother George Young had been a member of Australia's most successful Sixties band The Easybeats, who were the first local pop act to score an overseas hit ("Friday On My Mind") in 1967. Tiny Tina and Little John (1998). Malcolm first played with a Newcastle, NSW band called The Velvet Underground (not the Lou Reed group). In Deep (1997).

Malcolm began playing guitar first, soon followed by Angus. Don't Ask (1994). Born in Scotland, the brothers Angus and Malcolm Young moved with their family to Sydney, Australia as children. Strong as Steel (1990, re-issued in 1996). Some fans have a preference, others point to the merits of both singers and appreciate them equally. Summer was sufficiently pleased by the result that it was included on her live album. AC/DC is generally divided into "Bon Scott era (1974-80)" and "Brian Johnson era (1980-present)". Years after performing Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park" for Young Talent Time as an eleven year old, Arena was approached by Summer to perform a live duet with her of "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)".

Their albums have sold in colossal numbers — the total is now estimated to be around 100 million copies worldwide. Arena has frequently collaborated with fellow Australian singer/songwriter Rick Price and has co-written songs with him. She provided backing vocals on several of his recordings - he provided backing vocals on several of hers. The group was formed in Sydney, Australia in December, 1973. Arena's duet album with fellow Young Talent Time member John Bowles, titled Tiny Tina and Little Johnny and originally released in the mid 1970s, was reissued on CD in 1998 to capitalise on her success. AC/DC is an Australian rock band and considered pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal music. "Heaven Help My Heart" was a hit for Wynonna Judd, "Unsung Hero" for Terri Clark, and Jo Dee Messina's version of "Burn" reached number two on the US Country Chart. 2000 - Stiff Upper Lip. Several of Arena's songs have become country hits in the United States when recorded by other artists.

1997 - Bonfire (tribute to the late Bon Scott including several discs of old cuts). In 2003, three former "Young Talent Time" performers were simultaneously in the United States Billboard Magazine Dance Top 10 - Arena with "Never (Past Tense)", Dannii Minogue with "I Begin to Wonder" and Kylie Minogue (whose first television singing performance was on YTT despite never being an official member) with "Slow". 1995 - Ballbreaker. Arena is credited as being one of only five non French artists to achieve album sales in excess of one million units in France. 1992 - Live (released as both a double and a single album). 1990 - The Razor's Edge.

1988 - Blow Up Your Video. 1986 - Who Made Who (soundtrack to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive). 1985 - Fly on the Wall. 1984 - '74 Jailbreak (EP of old cuts).

1983 - Flick of the Switch. 1981 - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You). 1980 - Back in Black. 1979 - Highway to Hell.

1978 - If You Want Blood (Live). 1978 - Powerage. 1977 - Let There Be Rock. 1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Australia).

1976 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (re-released in the U.S., 1981). 1976 - High Voltage. 1975 - T.N.T. (Australia). 1974 - High Voltage (Australia).

Chris Slade (Drums) 1989-1994. Simon Wright (Drums) 1984-1989. Mark Evans (Bass Guitar) 1973-1977. Bon Scott (Vocals) 1974-1980.

Cliff Williams (Bass Guitar) 1978-. Phil Rudd (Drums) 1973-1983, 1994-. Brian Johnson (Vocals) 1980-. Malcolm Young (Rhythm Guitar) 1973-.

Angus Young (Lead Guitar) 1973-.