The project released an album in Australia called Tales of Old Grand Daddy.
Young live with AC/DC in 1982 at the Manchester Apolloīoth Young and Malcolm were in a band with George and his music partner Harry Vanda called Marcus Hook Roll Band. It had a real thin neck, really slim, like a Custom neck. I bought it second-hand it was about a '67. After high school, and with a pay packet, Young bought his first Gibson SG second-hand around 1970 from a music shop just down the street from his home: "I got out and got a Gibson SG that I played until it got wood rot because so much sweat and water got into it. Young's first guitar was a cheap acoustic model purchased second-hand by his mother. Young first started playing on a banjo, re-strung with six strings. Young set some type for that magazine, but, despite some claims, was never its employee. For one week, a soft porn magazine called Ribald moved into the print shop where Young worked. Īfter high school, Young worked at various jobs, including night shifts at a butcher shop. He practised the guitar in his bedroom after school. While at high school, Young enjoyed only the art classes. After primary school, Young attended Ashfield Boys High School, dropping out at age 15. Young's family moved into a semi-detached house at 4 Burleigh Street in the Sydney suburb of Burwood.
Initially staying at Villawood Migrant Hostel (a site later developed as Villawood Immigration Detention Centre) in Nissen huts, brother George met and became friends with another migrant, Harry Vanda, a relationship that grew into their professional careers in music. : 6–7 Young's brother John had migrated to Australia separately. Īlso aboard were Young's brother Stephen and his family, sister Margaret Horsburgh and brother William.
Prompted by the worst winter on record in Scotland and TV advertisements offering assisted travel for families to immigrate to Australia, William, Margaret, George, Malcolm and Young flew from Scotland to Sydney, Australia, in late June 1963.
Young also learned how to fight on Cranhill's tough streets, and, on one occasion was struck by a car. Young himself took up the guitar at the age of five or six, receiving one lesson from Alexander, after which he was self-taught. Stephen was the father of Stevie Young who in later years took over from Malcolm in AC/DC. : 6–7 Stephen played the piano accordion and the piano, Young's sister Margaret was passionate about music, John played the guitar, Alexander was an accomplished singer, bass guitarist and saxophonist who in the early 1960s left for a career in music in Europe, and George and Malcolm eventually became founding members of the Easybeats and AC/DC respectively. Young spent the first seven years of his life in Cranhill.
After the war William worked as a yard man for a builder and then as a postman. In 1940 William joined the Royal Air Force serving in World War II as a flight engine mechanic. Prior to moving to Cranhill, William worked first as a wheel boy in a rope works and then as a machine/saw operator in an asbestos/cement business. Cranhill was a tough, working-class suburb with high unemployment. In the 1950s, Young's father, William Young (1911–1985), his mother, Margaret (1913–1988 maiden name also Young), and his elder seven siblings lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow in Scotland.