AC/DC/50

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of AC/DC - half a century of riffs, rambunctiousness, schoolboy uniforms and some of the greatest rock'n'roll music ever created.

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To mark this momentous occasion we asked rock's finest to talk about their favourite albums by the Australian icons. Over the next 15 pages you'll find Paul Stanley, Joe Elliott, Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen, Biff Byford, Airbourne's Joel O'Keeffe and many more celebrating the genius of Back In Black, Highway To Hell, Powerage, High Voltage, Black Ice and every other album they made.

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 "I PLAYED HIGH VOLTAGE FOR FIVE MONTHS STRAIGHT!"

Saxon’s Biff Byford on how AC/DC’s debut album changed his life for ever.

“Someone gave me a cassette of High Voltage, and the second I heard It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock’N’Roll) I immediately ran to the boys [in Saxon] to show it them. I played it in our van for about five months straight! But the band’s whole DNA changed. We liked the energy of punk, because it was fast and furious, but we needed AC/DC for that groove. Put the two together and you get Saxon.