Angus Young

Angus McKinnon Young is one of the most revered guitarists alive, the Scottish-born Aussie rock guitarist was born in Glasgow, Scotland March 31, 1955. Being the youngest of 8 children he was always getting himself into trouble, his only vice, was playing the guitar.

When he first started playing he used banjos re-strung with six strings, but after dropping out of school and moving to Sydney Australia, he finally bought his first guitar from a second-hand shop down the street from his house, it was, The '67 Gibson SG. He played that guitar until it became warped and eventually unusable. He prefers SGs more than any other guitar.

In 1973 Angus formed AC/DC with bandmates Mark Sneddon (vocals-guitar), Jon Stevens (bass), Trevor James (drums), and his older brother Malcolm Young (lead vocals). They later re-recorded with Bon Scott and AC/DC was born. On 19 February 1980, Scott passed out in the car on the way back to friend Alistair Kinnear's house after a night of heavy drinking at the Music Machine club in London. After that, the group considered quitting, but after some heavy convincing from Scott's parents, they decided that Bon Scott would have wanted them to carry on. With new singer Brian Johnson, they released Back In Black, the sixth-highest selling album in the US to date.

Young prefers to keep his life private. He and his wife Ellen live in Kangaroo Point in the Sutherland Shire, in Sydney, and also own a home in Aalten, Netherlands where his wife is from.