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Everyone who has ever listened to an AC\/DC <\/a>record knew exactly what to expect before they even put the needle down. <\/p>\n Angus and Malcolm Young had pinpointed the exact sweet spot for rock and roll, and while it could get a bit monotonous after a while, you couldn\u2019t blame them for making the best riffs that they knew how with the sleaziest lyrics anyone had ever heard over top of them. So when they saw some of their contemporaries cashing in to earn some hits, they weren\u2019t going to roll over when asked about them.<\/p>\n Then again, there is also a very specific genre of rock and roll that the band always catered to. In their minds, the core essence of rock and roll began with the blues and ended a little bit before The Beatles came to town. They had little time for the pinup stars of the 1950s, and after Elvis Presley got drafted, that was where they stopped listening. It wasn\u2019t much to go on, but that was all they needed when they started woodshedding their songs with Bon Scott back in the day.<\/p>\n Because when you think about it, the beauty of AC\/DC was that it sounded so simple. They weren\u2019t going to overstay their welcome or have Angus play a long sweeping solo that lasted 20 minutes or anything. They had their fans\u2019 best interests at heart, and it was better for them to give each crowd the best show they\u2019ve ever seen rather than bring out the acoustic guitars or working with rappers.<\/p>\n That simply wasn\u2019t their style, so when rock and roll started changing in the 1980s, they burrowed ahead as only they knew how. Back in Black<\/a> secured them a place in rock and roll history right as the decade started, but even if a few of their songs managed to get traction on MTV, they weren\u2019t the type to be photogenic. They saved that for the poodle-haired \u201crock stars\u201d on the Sunset Strip, but it had to be disheartening seeing David Coverdale do the same thing.<\/p>\n While Angus admitted that he wasn\u2019t interested in any particular era of Deep Purple, it\u2019s not like Coverdale started life as a pinup star. He had studied all those bluesy vocalists that came before him, and while he did inject a bit of soul into the beginnings of Whitesnake, hearing him go from a song like \u2018Slow an\u2019 Easy\u2019 to breaking out the shimmering guitars on a song like \u2018Is This Love\u2019 was enough for the band to wash their hands of him.<\/p>\n