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WE`RE ON THE HIGH ROAD TO KELVINGROVE
Nov 19th 2011
Over the last few weeks I have past Kelvingrove Art Gallery and said to myself I must visit the AC/DC exhibition. Well today I did it and I was not dissappointed. I am not the greatest fan in the world but I love to watch the band live .
AC/DC have given the exhibition the name Australia`s Family Jewels. It`s going to run till February. Poster above show`s the band`s gig in Glasgow October 1977 .The top seat at Apollo back then cost £2 . The cost to enter the Kelvingrove exhibition is also £2.
The exhibition features 450 items including photos, posters, tickets, album covers and costumes.
As you walk through the entrance to the Display the music hits you .
Amongst the items on show at the exhibit are a leather jacket which belonged to Scott, handwritten lyrics to Highway to Hell, a prototype of Angus Young's signature schoolboy outfit, custom made guitars, over two hours of songs and interviews and a postcode sent by Bon Scott to his late mother while on tour in Germany in 1976.
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Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Sydney with most of their family in 1963. George was the first to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of the Easybeats, one of Australia's most successful bands of the 1960s. In 1966, they became the first local rock act to have an international hit, with the song "Friday on My Mind" Malcolm followed in George's footsteps by playing with a Newcastle, New South Wales, band called the Velvet Underground (not to be confused with the New York–based Velvet Underground). Their Oldest brother Alex Young chose to remain in Britain to pursue musical interests. In 1967, Alexander formed and played bass in the London-based band Grapefruit—initially called "The Grapefruit"—with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, John Perry, Geoff Swettenham, and Pete Swettenham.
Malcolm and Angus Young developed the idea for the band's name after their older sister, Margaret Young, saw the initials "AC/DC" on a sewing machine. "AC/DC" is an abbreviation meaning "alternating current/direct current" electricity. The brothers felt that this name symbolised the band's raw energy, power-driven performances, and a love for their music. "AC/DC" is pronounced one letter at a time, though the band are colloquially known as "Acca Dacca" in Australia.
AC/DC Scotland's Family Jewels opens on Saturday 17 September and runs until February 2012.