![]() ![]() Īfter high school, Young worked at various jobs, including night shifts at a butcher shop. He practised the guitar in his bedroom after school. While at high school, Young enjoyed only the art classes. Young attended Burwood Public School from 1960 to 1966 and in 1967, attended Ashfield Boys High School, dropping out at age 15. ![]() Young's family moved into a semi-detached house at 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood. Initially staying at Villawood Migrant Hostel (a site later developed as Villawood Immigration Detention Centre) in Nissen huts, brother George met and became friends with another migrant, Harry Vanda, a relationship that grew into their professional careers in music. John migrated to Australia separately from his parents and siblings, while Alexander was the only child to remain in the UK. Prompted by the worst winter on record in Scotland and TV advertisements offering assisted travel for families to immigrate to Australia, the Youngs flew from Scotland to Sydney, Australia, in late June 1963. Young also learned how to fight on Cranhill's tough streets, and, on one occasion was struck by a car. Young himself took up the guitar at the age of five or six, receiving one lesson from Alexander, after which he was self-taught. Stephen was the father of Stevie Young who in later years took over from Malcolm in AC/DC. : 6–7 Stephen played the piano accordion and the piano, Young's sister Margaret was passionate about music, John played the guitar, Alexander was an accomplished singer, bass guitarist and saxophonist who in the early 1960s left for a career in music in Europe, and George and Malcolm eventually became founding members of the Easybeats and AC/DC respectively. Young spent the first seven years of his life in Cranhill. After the war William worked as a yard man for a builder and then as a postman. In 1940 William joined the Royal Air Force serving in World War II as a flight engine mechanic. Prior to moving to Cranhill, William worked first as a wheel boy in a rope works and then as a machine/saw operator in an asbestos/cement business. Cranhill was a tough, working-class suburb with high unemployment. In the 1950s, Young's father, William Young (1911–1985), his mother, Margaret (1913–1988 maiden name also Young), and his elder seven siblings lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow in Scotland. In 2003, Young and the other members of AC/DC were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Young was ranked 24th in Rolling Stone 's 100 greatest guitarists of all-time list. He is known for his energetic performances, schoolboy-uniform stage outfits and his own version of Chuck Berry's duckwalk. Angus McKinnon Young (born 31 March 1955) is an Australian musician, best known as the co-founder, lead guitarist, songwriter, and the only remaining founding member of the hard rock band AC/DC. ![]()
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