Behind every pillar that rock has built, every guitar solo, every screaming fan, every life change and every sold-out concert, lie the three fundamental elements that laid the foundation for the most important genre in the world, which would be built on sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. AC/DC are the champions of that sound, but the band’s focus has always been on the latter more than anything else.
This was confirmed when the band released their album Let there be rock. In the face of an ever-changing musical landscape, they established themselves as musicians who did not deviate from the style they had so clearly adopted. Decades later, they are still considered one of the driving forces in rock, and their determination to deviate from the genre has cemented that position.
“Let there be rock“For me, it’s the album,” Angus Young said of what he considers AC/DC’s seminal album. “My brother George asked Malcolm and me, ‘What kind of album do you want to make this time?’ And Malcolm looked at me and said, ‘We just want an album that’s just going to be hard rock guitar.’”
If the band’s lyrics are to be believed, sex was never far from AC/DC’s camp, as songs like “Hard As A Rock,” “Cover You In Oil,” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” need no explanation. Interestingly, though, these songs were never associated with drugs. While this may seem harmless, it nearly crashed the American drug market, as Angus Young made Americans believe they were missing out on the next big thing.
“There was a lot of drugs going around,” Young recalls, speaking of the post-concert drug scene. “Every time I went to America, every dealer in the world was waiting for me backstage. But I actually drink tea, and back then I drank milk and chocolate.”
That innocence meant that when drug dealers approached Young and asked him what he wanted, he was honest with them. “The narcotics officers would come up to me and ask, ‘What’s the little guy having?’ And I’d say, ‘You know, I eat candy bars.'”
Instead of going to the nearest store and buying Young a gift bag full of candy, the dealers took the term as code for something, refusing to believe that the guitarist who walked like a duck and produced adrenaline rushes wasn’t on drugs. “So they’re all running around,” Angus laughs, “with these little chemistry kits trying to figure out what this new drug was.”
It’s a perfectly legitimate assumption. Anyone who’s seen clips of AC/DC in concert will see Young and assume he’s on something. It’s simply not human to be able to perform so effortlessly and with such energy for so long, but Young does it. It’s not the result of drugs, as is the case with many other rock stars, but rather a modest meal of milk and chocolate.
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