AC/DC: Aussie Tour Edition is a lavish, collectible tribute to the world's greatest rock band

AC/DC will finally bring their Power Up tour to Australia later this month, and to celebrate, we've printed a new run of the Classic Rock AC/DC Special Edition bookazine. Dubbed the Aussie Power Up Tour Edition, it features 132 pages of high quality, in-depth material spanning the group's 1973 formation in Australia, through to the present. It comes wrapped in a premium high-gloss cover.

How did AC/DC's first ever concert go? What's the story behind Bon Scott's music career pre-Acca Dacca? How the hell did the group bounce back so powerfully after Bon Scott's death, and what is the magic behind the success of Back In Black? All this is covered (and much more) as well as interviews with Malcolm Young, Angus Young and Brian Johnson. Check out the full table of contents at the bottom of this page.

Classic Rock AC/DC Special Edition: Aussie Power Up Tour Edition is out now for AU$22.95 at all good newsagents. Go and grab yours before the Power Up Tour hits proper: it'll get you in the mood and then some.

Contents

The Ballad Of Bon Scott
Bon’s brief tenure in folksters Mount Lofty Rangers prior to joining AC/DC and a near-fatal premature ending…

The First Gig!
The original line-up recall seeing in the new year of ’74 with a bang.

TNT
The Australia-only release of their second album.

First Steps
Growing up down under: aggro in the arvo.

Let There Be Rock!
The band’s first proper album release confirms their status as a definitive force in rock’n’roll.

Riff Raff
Laying waste to the UK: on tour in ’77 with Bon leading the charge.

Bad Boy Boogie
The last few years of the 70s, AC/DC consolidated their name as the ultimate good time rock’n’roll band – both on record and on stage.

Shot Down
Working towards the peak career of the band’s Bon Scott era, AC/DC recruited new album producer Mutt Lange.

Highway To Hell
The full story behind the making of the band’s most well-known and enduring album.

A Touch Too Much
The tragic passing of the AC/DC frontman and how his death passed into legend – and conspiracy.

The 80s
The exit of Bon and the entrance of Brian ‘Beano’ Johnson: how AC/DC rose again to reach even greater success.

Back In Black
Beano’s debut: the iconic album that saw AC/DC break new ground whilst remaining true to their roots.

Hell’s Bells
Exactly how did Back In Black become such a classic album? Geoff Barton of Classic Rock explores its longevity.

For Whom The Bell Tolls
How the band fared with new guy Beano out front.

Every Home Should Have One
Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd on why Back In Black was such an important album for him – and his career.

For Those About To Rock, We Salute You
The stress and strain of following up Back In Black as new era of rock approached.

Bring Out The Big Guns
The pitfalls of playing on stage with firing cannons.

Rock’N’Roll Damnation
Dealing with inter-band conflict, surviving the vagaries of music fashion, censorship in the USA… and a serial killer.

In The Badlands
How Flick Of The Switch and Fly On The Wall saw AC/DC falter in the decade that saw pop overcome rock.

Going Into Overdrive
Drawing inspiration from an unlikely source, AC/DC revitalise their career with Who Made Who and Blow Up Your Video.

High Voltage
The resurgence and the cleaning-up of their act.

Malcolm Young
The older brother interviewed in 1992, following the release of The Razor’s Edge and Ballbreaker albums.

Rock Your Heart Out
Back to basics: the making of Razor’s Edge, Ballbreaker and into the new millennium with Stiff Upper Lip.

Can’t Stop Rock’N’Roll
The renaissance of AC/DC: how the band thrived in the new millennium by outliving their peers from the 70s.

Black Ice
For almost a decade with no new music, the band exploded back onto the scene with a “comeback” …then went supernova.

Train Kept A-Rollin’
Revisiting Black Ice and Rock Or Bust – the band’s latest (or final?) – two albums that brought the band’s career full circle.

It’s A Long Way To The Top…
He’s not bitter: Brian Johnson’s career in full and how he successfully filled the big shoes of Bon Scott, when no one though that was possible.

Let There Be Rock. Again
Angus Young and Brian Johnson on ressurecting the one of the greatest hard rock bands ever and unleashing Power Up.

The 30 Greatest Songs
The all-time classic cuts. From Lemmy to Aerosmith, from Clutch to Kiss, the great and the good choose their favourites.