- 1973 AC/DC was
fromed in Sydney, Austrarlia
- The band's first
gig was at Chequers Club in Sydney on December
31, 1973
- During February of
1975 their debut album ’High
Voltage’
was published in Australia
- '75 AC/DC had it's
first steady line-up: Malcolm
& Angus Young, Bon Scott, Phill Rudd and Mark
Evans
- February '76 ’T.N.T’ is released
- ’High
Voltage’
sees the light of day in Britain in May '76. Now
this is a different version than the one released
in Austrailia. It's a compilation of the songs on
'T.N.T' and 'High
Voltage'. I
know that it's strange, but these guys love
publishing different versions on different
continents. Although at the time the idea was to
give the best of the first two albums for the
Brits.
- Sebtember '76,
’Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ released in
Australia
- During July '76,
AC/DC becomes a regular weekly act at Marquee
Club in London.
- Dec. '76, ’Dirty
Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ is released in the U.K.
Again, not the same as in Austrailia...
- '77 the new ’Let There
Be Rock’
sees the light.
- '77 Cliff
Williams
takes over from Mark Evans as the new basist of the
band.
- The Brit version of
’High Voltage’ and ’Let There
Be Rock’
is realised in the U.S.
- October '77 ’Let There
Be Rock’
released in Britain, with only one song altered
(Go Young brothers! I guess they're learning)
- ’Powerage’ released in the UK
in May of '78.
- ’If You
Want Blood You’ve Got It’ released in
October of '78
- June '79 ’Highway
To Hell’
is released.
- 1st commercial live
video ’Let There Be Rock’ was shot in Paris
(at least BBC did a recording before this, but
it's not in commercial distribution)
- January 27th 1980 Bon Scott appeared in public for
the last time…
- Tuesday February
19th 1980 Bon Scott dies of "accute alcohol
poisoning", basically he chocked on his
vomit while sleeping in the back seat of his
friends car.
- Brian
Johnson
becomes AC/DC's new lead singer only a few months
after Bon's death.
- ’Back In
Black’
is released in the late July of 1980 and in two
weeks it becomes no.1 on British charts and sells
over 10 million copies world wide.
- ’Dirty
Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ comes out in the U.S. (this
being the Brit version)
- August '81 AC/DC
headlines the ’Monsters Of Rock’ festival
- ’For Those
About To Rock’
is released in Novemer of '81
- In February '82,
’Let's Get It Up’ rises on the
singles charts as number 13, thus becoming the
best sold single in the history of AC/DC.
- Phil
Rudd get's
fired for what was rummored to be drug problems
and continuous fighting with Malcolm Young
- '83 ’Flick Of
The Switch’
is released and Simon Wright is hired as a new
drummer
- ’Fly On
The Wall’
released in June '85
- May '86, ’Who Made
Who’
sees the light of day
- ’Blow Up
Your Video’
is released in the end of January of 1988
- -89 Simon
Wright
leaves the band in order to join Dio and is
replaced by Chris Slade.
- ’The
Razors Edge’
is released in September of '90
- June '91 video
’Clipped’ is released.
- In October of '92
the simply titeled album ’Live’ is released in two
versions as a single CD and as a 2CD set.
- After a week they
release the video ’AC/DC
Live At Donington’.
- During the summer
or 1994 Phil Rudd joines the band again after a
phone call from Malcolm.
- Septeber of '95 is
greeted by the release of a new album ’Ballbreaker’
- During October they
release their 3rd live video called ’No Bull’, shot at a
bullfighting arena in Spain.
- The ’Bonfire’ set is released in
November of '97, for the memory of Bon Scott, in
two versions. The European version includes four
CD's ('Live at Atlantic Studios', 'Let There
Be Rock'
[the soundtrack of the live vidieo recorded in
Paris in '79 on 2 CD's] and 'Volts' [never before released
songs]) and the American version inlcudes the
previous and 'Back In Black', which has always been
considered a tribute for Bon
- ’Stiff
Upper Lip’
is released during the spring of the year 2000,
and is followed by a massive world tour.
- They also released
a 'Stiff Upper Lip' -DVD during the winter
of 2001, a live concert shot in Germany
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