![]() “They don’t understand the feel, the movement.” “Rock’n’roll has the swing.” He proceeded to demonstrate precisely what he meant by hissing out the respective hi-hat patterns, while beating his thigh to mime the kick drum. “Well, rock bands don’t really swing,” he said, as if explaining how the Earth was in fact spherical rather than flat. One puzzled interviewer once asked him the difference between the two. And what he played, he insisted, was rock’n’roll, not rock. ![]() Malcolm, on a Gretsch Jet Firebird that always looked giant on his tiny frame, was not just the business brain of AC/DC but their musical heart, too – everything AC/DC did stemmed from his playing. ![]() The great producer and engineer Terry Manning – whose career consisted largely of working with the greatest soul groups and rock bands – once said that as a rhythm guitarist, Malcolm was the equal of Steve Cropper, of Booker T & the MG’s, and that does not oversell him. ![]() Photograph: Bob King/Getty ImagesĪnd Malcolm Young was the heart of it all. ![]()
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