AC/DC Reunite and Hint New Album
AC/DC have announced a reunion, featuring members who had left the classic rock band in recent years.
On their Instagram they shared a photo of the new composition of the band with vocalist Brian Johnson, bassist Cliff Williams, drummer Phil Rudd, and Angus Young and Stevie Young on guitars. The first three have previously departed.
“Are you ready? #PWRUP,” the band posted alongside a photo.
Johnson had been the band’s frontman since 1980, following the death of original singer Bon Scott, but had quit in 2016 due to hearing loss; Williams retired in 2017.
It’s Rudd’s third run in the Australian band, first playing from 1975 to 1983, then rejoining in 1994. In 2015 he was sentenced to eight months’ house arrest after being charged with drug possession and threatening to kill his personal assistant. He was replaced by former AC/DC drummer Chris Slade.
The three returning musicians are joined by uncle-and-nephew guitarists Angus Young and Stevie Young, who had remained in the lineup. Stevie replaced Angus’s brother Malcolm in 2014, after Malcolm was diagnosed with dementia. Malcolm Young died in 2017.
No new album or tour has been announced with the returning lineup, but the Instagram post’s Pwr Up caption suggests an album of the same name. The band’s last album was Rock or Bust in 2014.
However, AC/DC‘s next album is said to have been recorded, but the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to delay its release. In July, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, a close friend of the band, claimed that, adding:
“This is gonna be a miracle of technology. What will be achieved, the reuniting of the band that we know for one more album, is gonna be uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. Because nothing goes on forever. But this is the ultimate ‘one more time.”
It comes after Snider also shared in February that during a dinner he had with Brian Johnson the frontman told him “a lot of stuff, and a lot of stuff that I don’t wanna say”.
“But we know from the photos, and Brian confirmed it, they’ve been in the studio, they’ve been recording,” he added.
