Here is a shortend bio of Angus Young, AC/DC lead guitarist:
Angus Young was brought up in Glasgow's east end in the area of Cranhill along with older brothers Malcolm Young and George Young. He started playing guitar when he was about five years old, a local kid had one and Angus would play it during visits. He got his own guitar by taking a banjo his family had lying around the house and re-stringing it like a guitar.Young didn't really get into guitar-playing seriously until his early teens, after the Young family moved from Scotland to Australia in 1963 (as had AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in the 1950s). He got his first Gibson SG after seeing it in a friend's catalogue. Until then, he had been playing on an old Höfner guitar he inherited from his brother, Malcolm, after he got a new Gretsch Jet Firebird.[citation needed] Angus and Malcolm's brother George (of The Easybeats) would give them guitar lessons when he would come home during breaks from touring.Angus Young is notorious for his wild onstage antics. He entertains audiences with his intense jumps onstage and with his running back and forth across the stage while playing his guitar. When singer Bon Scott was still with the band (before his death in 1980), Young would clamber on to Scott's shoulders during concerts and they would make their way through the audience with smoke streaming from a satchel on his back, whilst he played an extended guitar solo, usually during the song "Rocker".
In later years, Young performed moves such as his own version of the Duck Walk, which was inspired by his idol Chuck Berry, and his "spasm", during which he throws himself to the ground, kicking, shaking, and spinning in circles, while playing the guitar. Both moves can be seen in the "Who Made Who" video.[2] Young developed the "spasm" while he was playing live in a small club in Australia, after he accidentally tripped over a cable on stage while playing his solo. He covered it up by having a seizure-like "spasm" on stage to make it seem like part of the act. It has been a trademark of his ever since.
Other gimmicks employed by Young include his strip act, which can be seen during "Bad Boy Boogie" on the most definitive live concert footage Let There Be Rock (1980). It is also viewable in during "Jailbreak" on the 1992 Live at Donington DVD, during "Boogie Man" on No Bull, and during "Bad Boy Boogie" on Stiff Upper Lip Live. Sometimes he would use his fingers to perform his devil horns act-usually before playing Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be-, whether being on stage or having his picture taken by the press.
