Angus Young

His siblings were Stephen Crawford (1933–1989), Margaret (1935–2019), John (born 1938), Alexander (1938–1997), William (born 1940), George (1946–2017) and Malcolm (1953–2017).

Music was part of family life.

In 1940 William joined the Royal Air Force serving in World War II as a flight engine mechanic.

After the war William worked as a yard man for a builder and then as a postman.

Margaret was a housewife.

Young spent the first seven years of his life in Cranhill.

In the 1950s, Young's father, William Young (1911–1985), his mother, Margaret (1913–1988; maiden name also Young), and his elder seven siblings lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow in Scotland.

Cranhill was a tough, working-class suburb with high unemployment.

Prior to moving to Cranhill, William worked first as a wheel boy in a rope works and then as a machine/saw operator in an asbestos/cement business.

Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only remaining founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC.

He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk.

Young was ranked 38th in the 2023 edition of Rolling Stone's 250 greatest guitarists of all-time list.

Stephen played the piano accordion and the piano, Young's sister Margaret was passionate about music, John played the guitar, Alexander was an accomplished singer, bass guitarist and saxophonist who in the early 1960s left for a career in music in Europe, and George and Malcolm eventually became founding members of the Easybeats and AC/DC respectively.

Stephen was the father of Stevie Young who in later years took over from Malcolm in AC/DC.

Young himself took up the guitar at the age of five or six, receiving one lesson from Alexander, after which he was self-taught.

Young also learned how to fight on Cranhill's tough streets, and, on one occasion was struck by a car.

Young attended Burwood Public School from 1960 to 1966 and in 1967, attended Ashfield Boys High School, dropping out at age 15.

While at high school, Young enjoyed only the art classes.

He practised the guitar in his bedroom after school.

After high school, Young worked at various jobs, including night shifts at a butcher shop.

Then he became an apprentice printer.

For one week, a soft porn magazine called Ribald moved into the print shop where Young worked.

Young set some type for that magazine, but, despite some claims, was never its employee.

Young first started playing on a banjo, re-strung with six strings.

Young's first guitar was a cheap acoustic model purchased second-hand by his mother.

Prompted by the worst winter on record in Scotland and TV advertisements offering assisted travel for families to immigrate to Australia, the Youngs flew from Scotland to Sydney, Australia, in late June 1963.

John migrated to Australia separately from his parents and siblings, while Alexander was the only child to remain in the UK.

Initially staying at Villawood Migrant Hostel (a site later developed as Villawood Immigration Detention Centre) in Nissen huts, brother George met and became friends with another migrant, Harry Vanda, a relationship that grew into their professional careers in music.

Young's family moved into a semi-detached house at 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood.

After high school, and with a pay packet, Young bought his first Gibson SG second-hand around 1970 from a music shop just down the street from his home: "I got out and got a Gibson SG that I played until it got wood rot because so much sweat and water got into it. The whole neck warped. I bought it second-hand; it was about a '67. It had a real thin neck, really slim, like a Custom neck. It was dark brown."

Both Young and Malcolm were in a band with George and his music partner Harry Vanda called Marcus Hook Roll Band.

The project released an album in Australia called Tales of Old Grand Daddy.

Prior to forming AC/DC, Angus Young played in a local group called Kantuckee.

Kantuckee's line-up included Bob McGlynn (vocals), Angus Young (guitar), Jon Stevens (bass) and Trevor James (drums).

The band split and was later called Tantrum with the following line up: Mark Sneddon (vocals-guitar), Angus Young (guitar), Jon Stevens (bass) and Trevor James (drums).

Young was 18 when he and Malcolm formed AC/DC in 1973.

Young was on lead guitar, Malcolm on rhythm guitar, Colin Burgess on drums, Larry Van Kriedt on bass guitar and Dave Evans on vocals.

The band had a recording contract with Albert Productions; it had also produced the work of the Easybeats.

"Can I Sit Next To You Girl", the band's first single, was later re-recorded with Bon Scott as their vocalist.

In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.