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Australia's biggest band of any genre, AC/DC, is believed to be close to pulling the plug with unconfirmed reports that a key member is too ill to continue.
That member is understood to be founding guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young, 61, who has long been a heavy smoker and has been ill for up to two years.
Sources close to the band confirmed that Young and his family had recently returned to live in Australia from Britain, suggesting his condition may have deteriorated.
Mick Wall wrote in his 2012 book Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be that Young was sick but his condition may have stabilised. But talk of his illness resurfaced on Tuesday when Melbourne 3AW entertainment commentator Peter Ford said the band may never perform or record again. Ford's initial source is believed to have been an anonymous caller to Perth's 6PR on Monday, who claimed the band had made a pact that no member of AC/DC would be replaced (although several members have been replaced over time, including the late lead singer Bon Scott, replaced with Brian Johnson in 1980) and that the son of a ''particularly ill member'' had told him ''AC/DC may well be over''.
AC/DC formed in 1973 and is the highest-selling Australian act ever. It has sold more than 200 million albums.
Conflicting stories about the band's future - none of which included any official comment - continued all day on Tuesday. Some reports said the band was booked to record a new album in Vancouver in May, while others said those plans had been put on hold.
Melbourne's Cherry Bar, located in the recently named AC/DC Lane, posted on its Facebook page that ''The band got together for 40th anniversary show rehearsals and Malcolm had forgotten how to play guitar due to a clot on the brain caused by smoking.'' It also claimed, AC/DC's unofficial Australian representatives, Alberts, would make a statement on Wednesday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...-to-rumours-20140415-36puy.html#ixzz2yzhkmNuu
That member is understood to be founding guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young, 61, who has long been a heavy smoker and has been ill for up to two years.
Sources close to the band confirmed that Young and his family had recently returned to live in Australia from Britain, suggesting his condition may have deteriorated.
Mick Wall wrote in his 2012 book Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be that Young was sick but his condition may have stabilised. But talk of his illness resurfaced on Tuesday when Melbourne 3AW entertainment commentator Peter Ford said the band may never perform or record again. Ford's initial source is believed to have been an anonymous caller to Perth's 6PR on Monday, who claimed the band had made a pact that no member of AC/DC would be replaced (although several members have been replaced over time, including the late lead singer Bon Scott, replaced with Brian Johnson in 1980) and that the son of a ''particularly ill member'' had told him ''AC/DC may well be over''.
AC/DC formed in 1973 and is the highest-selling Australian act ever. It has sold more than 200 million albums.
Conflicting stories about the band's future - none of which included any official comment - continued all day on Tuesday. Some reports said the band was booked to record a new album in Vancouver in May, while others said those plans had been put on hold.
Melbourne's Cherry Bar, located in the recently named AC/DC Lane, posted on its Facebook page that ''The band got together for 40th anniversary show rehearsals and Malcolm had forgotten how to play guitar due to a clot on the brain caused by smoking.'' It also claimed, AC/DC's unofficial Australian representatives, Alberts, would make a statement on Wednesday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...-to-rumours-20140415-36puy.html#ixzz2yzhkmNuu
