AC/DC

The ABCD of AC/DC

With tight riffs and even tighter jeans, AC/DC have had us thunderstruck for more than 50 years. Now the band are about to hit our shores for the final leg of their explosive Power Up world tour. So turn the dial all the way up to 11 and bring out the devil’s horns, as we celebrate Australia’s biggest rock’n’roll band.

It’s the ABCD of AC/DC, all the things you didn’t even know you wanted to know about Acca Dacca. Bon Scott used to play the recorder? Angus’ original school uniform was a hand-me-down from his nephew? The ‘Highway to Hell’ is a real stretch of road in WA? It’s all true and it’s all here, in this high-voltage edition.

More highlights in this edition:

• • From doorknocking for God to working at her local chip shop, NZ’s former PM Jacinda Ardern shares the experiences that shaped her as a leader, and how love from her family has held her through it all.
  • Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos tells us how music has taken him places he always dreamed of, and why the band won’t get stuck in the success of the past.
  • In the Netherlands, floating homes offer a novel solution to rising sea levels. Photojournalist Alessandro Gandolfi explores the futuristic design and philosophy of these new spaces.
  • It may not sound like a very funny film – a poet’s experience of terminal cancer – but Andrea Gibson filled their short life full of love and laughter and connection, as captured in Ryan White’s tender new documentary Come See Me in the Good Light.
  • “This simple, heart-warming meal sparks a sense of nostalgia every time” – Nabula El Mourid shares her Yiayia’s delicious, soul-warming Chicken Rice Mountains and Greek Salad. Read the full recipe here.

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