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AC/DC is a 5 piece hard rock band from Australia formed in 1973 by the two brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. Their style commonly referred to blues rock and rock n roll with a quite simple rhythmic structure. The band had several line-up changes, Mark Evans was replaced by Cliff Williams in 1977 and after the tragic death of the lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott in 1980, ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was auditioned and selected to replace Scott. Later that year, the band released the new album, Back in Black, which was made as a tribute to Bon Scott. The album launched them to new heights of success and became their all time best-seller, selling over 10,000 copies a day in its first week. The band's next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was their first album to reach number one in the United States. AC/DC declined in popularity soon after drummer Phil Rudd was fired in 1983 and was replaced by Simon Wright and with Chris Slade in 1989 up till 1994 when Phil Rudd has returned to the band. Since then, the band's line-up has remained the same. As of 2010, AC/DC had sold more than 200 million albums worldwide including 71 million albums in the United States alone. Back in Black has sold an estimated 50 million units worldwide, making it the second-highest-selling album by any artist behind Michael Jackson's Thriller and the highest selling album by any band. Brothers Malcolm, Angus, and George Young were born in Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Sydney with most of their family in 1963. George was the first to learn to play the guitar. He became a member of the Easybeats, one of Australia's most successful bands of the 1960s. In 1966, they became the first local rock act to have an international hit, with the song "Friday on My Mind".[14] Malcolm followed in George's footsteps by playing with a Newcastle, New South Wales band called the Velvet Underground (not to be confused with the New York-based Velvet Underground).[15] Their oldest brother Alex