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(Credits: Far Out \/ Joan Sorolla)<\/p>\n
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Every rock band does the most damage on the live stage. Despite having the studio as their de facto playground every time they are off the road, any artist in their natural habitat will set up shop in front of an audience and prove why they should be called one of the greatest bands in the world. It\u2019s about spectacle in rock and roll, and no one knew that mentality better than Angus Young<\/a>.<\/p>\n When first emerging on the scene with AC\/DC, Young was a child of the stone age of rock and roll, first getting turned on by the records from Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. Once he started to work off his brother Malcolm in their own outfit, Young had found his calling in a young schoolboy\u2019s uniform, raising hell everywhere he went. <\/p>\n As he once put it, \u201cWhen I\u2019m on stage, the savage in me is released. It\u2019s like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.\u201d You can sense that very notion on stage as he hops about like a loon.\u00a0<\/p>\n In fact, he even joked about that, quipping, \u201cOnce you\u2019re on stage, you can\u2019t go back, even when things go wrong, people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you\u2019ve got to try tap dancing.\u201d<\/p>\n Though Young co-opted Berry\u2019s signature duck walk for his own when playing, he would often take it to another level, letting his guitar take him to another place and practically having an exorcism whenever he tore off a solo. In their 1970s prime, Bon Scott could compete with the likes of Young, too, playing up his persona as a booze-swinging madman.<\/p>\n Though Young respected his contemporaries on the scene, he was never that impressed when another rock institution came to town, even having issues with the Rolling Stones when they eventually supported them. But as AC\/DC was rising on the scene, a different rock revolution was going on in England from the likes of the lavish Led Zeppelin.<\/p>\n Operating as a sequel band to The Yardbirds, Jimmy Page assembled a group designed to break down the boundaries of what rock could be, turning their albums into drawn-out exercises of discovery. Though the album may have worked in its format, Young was not impressed when Zeppelin tried translating their style to the live show.<\/p>\n![\"Robert](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Robert-Plant-Singer-1979-Led-Zeppelin-Far-Out-Magazine-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/a>Robert Plant on stage with Led Zeppelin. (Credits: Far Out \/ Led Zeppelin)<\/p>\n