TheAge.com.au reports:

A pair of 30-year-old notebooks containing handwritten lyrics, a drawing of a woman and some humorous asides, confirmed AC/DC's status as one of the world's most collectible bands when they sold for $US35,000 ($A44,000) at Christie's in New York last month.

The notebooks, belonging to the band's late singer Bon Scott, include lyrics for 25 songs across the band's first three albums including High Voltage, TNT and Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.

On the inside cover of one of the notebooks Scott had scrawled: "Any spelling or grammatical errors in this book are done on purpose so's not to make Angus feel to (sic) bad, English being not his best subject. (But he speaks very fluent Tasmanian!)"

After the lyrics of the song 'There's Gonna Be Some Rockin' is the note: "F--- This One's Shithouse. Forget It!"

The notebooks went under the hammer as AC/DC tours the world promoting its first album in nine years, Black Ice. The band sold 110,000 tickets in the first 45 minutes for three shows scheduled for Melbourne at the Docklands Stadium in February next year.

During the Bon Scott era, the group lived for a time in Lansdowne Road in St Kilda, and now have a Melbourne laneway named in their honour.

Read more at TheAge.com.au.