AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has stated the band are not retiring yet – and they’re planning to go ahead with studio sessions in May.
But his comments suggest there’s at least a hint of doubt about the band’s future, and no guarantee that their planned 40th anniversary tour will go ahead.
There’s been a flurry of speculation in recent days after it was rumoured that mainman Malcolm Young was too ill to continue, and that a long-standing agreement amongst the quintet meant that if one of them left the entire band would fold.
Johnson tells the Telegraph: “We are definitely getting together in May in Vancouver. We’re going to pick up guitars, have a plonk and see if anybody has got any tunes or ideas. If anything happens we’ll record it.”
He’d previously confirmed that one of the band, believed to be Malcolm, was suffering from ill health – but he refuses to add more details.
“I wouldn’t like to say anything either way about the future,” says Johnson. “I’m not ruling anything out. One of the boys has a debilitating illness, but I don’t want to say too much about it. He’s very proud and private. A wonderful chap. We’ve been pals for 25 years and I look up to him very much.”
He’d also said there were plans for AC/DC to play 40 shows to mark their 40th anniversary – their first show was on New Year’s Eve 1973.
Now he reports: “That would be a wonderful way to say bye-bye. We would love to do it – but it’s all up in the air at the moment.”
additional source: classicrockmagazine.com
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as I said on other story in news section , Malcolm had a stroke, was reported on a ny station tues night.
One of The Easybeats will join. Keep it OZ.
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley need to learn a thing or two about CLASS from AC/DC. These guys have always been a class act, just normal people that bring it every single time. Do you know anyone that has a bad thing to say about the members of AC/DC? Me neither.