By far, the biggest release of the year. This is comparable with the second coming. Four years ago, AC/DC looked dead and buried. Brian Johnson had to unceremoniously and suddenly bow out of live duties due to chronic hearing loss (and was bizarrely but rather brilliantly replaced by Axl Rose), Cliff Williams had retired, Phil Rudd was battling personnel problems (including an ‘intention to kill’ charge) and Malcolm Young was dead. The biggest bar band in the world was no more.

It was last year that rumours of life after death started to circulate. We all tried not to get too over excited, but leaked photos of the Phil, Brian and Cliff huddled together outside a recording studio seemed to confirm that the old dog (eat dog) was stirring. Confirmation came in October this year and “Power Up” finally dropped last month.

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