AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson paid tribute to Malcolm Young, saying his late bandmate gave rock and roll “a fist” and “a kick in the ass.”
Malcolm, who co-founded AC/DC with his brother Angus in 1973, died on Saturday (November 18) at the age of 64 after suffering from dementia and failing health for several years.
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Speaking to Rolling Stone, Johnson said: “Malcolm gave rock and roll a fist. He’d give it a kick in the ass. People always used to ask Mal, ‘How do you get that sound, man?’ Malcolm either wouldn’t tell them or just really couldn’t explain it. He would just go, ‘We just play.’ I used to stand next to him at the end of ‘Let There Be Rock’, where there is a big huge build at the end and it builds and builds. Malcolm would go through two guitar picks during that one song. He would wear them down. He was the most precise guitarist.”
Artists around the world have continued to pay tribute to Malcolm in the wake of his passing, with GUNS N’ ROSES and FOO FIGHTERS both performing AC/DC songs in recent days to memorialize the fallen guitarist.
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