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AC/DC formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973, founded by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, and spent the following decades becoming one of the most commercially successful and musically influential bands in rock history. Their formula — hard rock built on simple but massive guitar riffs, high-gain amplification, and either Bon Scott's or Brian Johnson's distinctive vocals — was established early and deliberately maintained across every record they made. The band's commitment to that formula was not conservatism but confidence: they understood exactly what they were doing, and they did it better than anyone else.

The deaths of Malcolm Young in 2017 and Bon Scott in 1980 are the two great losses of the band's history, but AC/DC has demonstrated a resilience that speaks to the depth of the institution they built. Back in Black (1980), the album released just months after Scott's death with new vocalist Brian Johnson, is one of the best-selling albums in history and contains some of the most immediately recognizable rock songs ever recorded. The catalog — "Highway to Hell," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Thunderstruck," "Hells Bells," "TNT," "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" — is a collection of songs so embedded in popular culture that they are known to people who have never sought out rock music as a genre.

The Power Up Tour, supporting their 2020 album Power Up, brings the band back to stadiums for the kind of show only a handful of acts in rock history are capable of delivering. The production scale is enormous, the setlist spans their full career, and the volume is, as always, genuinely extreme. For anyone who grew up with this music — or anyone who simply appreciates what it sounds like when a band has spent fifty years perfecting exactly one thing — an AC/DC show is a non-negotiable live music experience.

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