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Theage.com.au spoke with legendary AC/DC guitarist Angus Young recently about a number of topics including their new album, Black Ice, due out on October 20th. An excerpt follows:

One classic, possibly apocryphal story concerns a journalist accusing AC/DC of having released the same album 12 times in a row. "It's a bloody lie," Angus supposedly retorted. "We've done it 16 times." More poetically, he has cheerfully described his older brother Malcolm's career as "30 years of 16 steps forward and 16 steps back".

In fact, Malcolm's dedication to the same machine-like stage move and the same 4 x 4 blues-metal template encapsulates the heart and soul of AC/DC. Angus is the band's focus, but he always defers to his faceless older brother as the band's leader and chief craftsman.

"The rhythm thing," he muttered, shaking his head over a pot of tea and an ashtray on their last visit to Melbourne in 2001. "It looks simple but... I can't do it and I've been watching him for years."

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AC/DC just announced the following European live dates:

February
18 - Oslo, Norway - Telenor Arena
20 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Globe

March
5 - Leipzig, Germany - Halle 1
7 - Dusseldorf, Germany - ISS Dome
9 - Oberhausen, Germany - KoPi Arena
11 - Bremen, Germany - AWD Dome
15 - Dortmund, Germany - Westfallenhalle
17 - Prague, Czech Republic - O2 Arena
19 - Milan, Italy - Datch Forum
23 - Budapest, Hungary - Papp László Budapest Sportarena
25 - Frankfurt, Germany - Festhalle
27 - Munich, Germany - Olympiahalle