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AC/DC review – a poignant lesson on the power of rock’n’roll
Brian Johnson’s voice is frayed but Angus Young’s guitar tone is as powerful as ever, and this show on what could be the band’s last world tour packs an emotional punch
With their entire rhythm section now lost to death ( Malcolm Young), retirement () and being a carer (Phil Rudd), AC/DC is now down to two core members. Even in 1980, on Back in Black, he sounded at the very top of his register (or, indeed, somewhere around the highest notes attainable by humans), and those songs cause him the most trouble tonight – he sometimes seems barely there, dropping octaves mid-line, struggling for power. The emotional power comes from the suspicion that this world tour will surely be the band’s last, and from the palpable joy their thrilling, reductive, primal music has brought over so many years.
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