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AC/DC Books
Highway to hell The life and times of Bon Scott Australian 300 page book a biography by Clinton Walker Sun books 1994 (Australian)
Clinton Walker ISBN 0 283 06263 0

First published in 1994 by Sun by Pan Macmillan Publishers a division of Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 63-71 Balfour Street, Chippendale, Sydney, Australia

ISBN: 0 7251 0742 1

324 pages, including discography of Bon's recordings, and a short biography of each of the major characters in the book.

This book covers Bon's entire life, including early childhood (with many photos) through to his death (he had japanese fish cakes for breakfast the day he died!).

Revised re-released editions of the book have appeared under the title "Highway to hell: The life & death of AC/DC legend Bon Scott"


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Maximum Rock and Roll AC/DC Maximum Rock and Rock - The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock Band
by Murray Englehart & Arnaud Durieux

has been publised in Australia by HarperCollins Publishers Released in Australia 25th October 2006 and available via

Maximum Rock & Roll



Scheduled for release in USA January 2007 - Available via
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Let There be Rock Let There Be Rock: The Story of AC/DC by Susan Masino is being released 17th October 2006.

Susan Masino the author of "Let there be Rock: The Story of AC/DC has recently launched a web site to promote her book.

Extracts of the book can be read at www.storyofacdc.com

More details


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see also www.susanmasino.com

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Two Sides AC/DC - "Two Sides to Every Glory" by Paul Stenning.
350 page book
Released September 2005

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AC/DC Hard Rock Live Photos 1976 - 1980 AC/DC Hard Rock Live photos 1976 - 1980
von Wolfgang Heilemann
Novemver 2004
224 pages
Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf

Available at Amazon Germany

Thanks to www.squealer.net

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Rock n Roll Fantasy Rock n Roll Fantasy - "My Life and Times with AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss..." by Susan Masino. Released April 2003 by Badger Books

Although previously released as an E-book CD-Rom , the book has now been released as a 188 page paperback edition by Badger Books.


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Related Link www.susanmasino.com

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Get your jumbo jet out of my airport (Random notes for AC/DC Obsessives) by Howard Johnson
Published by The Black Book Company , Box 2030 , Pewsey , SN9 5QZ , England
This book was released June 1999 and some of the interesting articles featured include

  • Dave Evans Interview
  • The recording of the VH1 performance by AC/DC in 1996
  • Personal memories and notes from real fans
  • AC/DC Lineups (submitted by myself)
  • Notes from the editors of the fanzines Electric Outlaws , Daily Dirt , Let there be Light
  • And other related AC/DC snipets of information

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AC/DC - The Definitive History - The Kerrang Files
Release date - 9th August 2001
A revised and updated version of a previous book released by Kerrang.
192 pages
The book draws from archive articles from the Kerrang and the Sounds magazines.


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Heavist Rock band AC/DC - The Worlds Heaviest Rock by Martin Huxley.

Copywrite Martin Huxley 1996.
Published St. Martins Griffin New York.
address: St.Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue.New York. N.Y. 10010.


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Original Angus Young (The guitar technique of Angus Young) by ARTI FUNARO published by AMSCO/WISE publications

 AC/DC Shock to the System
ISBN 0.7119.2823.1 by MARK PUTTERFORD

A history of the band through The Razors Edge. Lots of info about the early days in Australia. Many cool pictures, this is the best of the AC/DC biographies.

Hell aint no bad place to be - Richard Bunton


 AC/DC - Malcolm Dome (Proteus books 1982)

A history of the band up to the release of For Those About To Rock. The cover picture is the same as the poster that was in the French LP box set. UK discography in the back of the book.

1983 AC/DC HM photo book


 Comic AC/DC Rock n roll comics 1991
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Dome AC/DC The Kerrang Files by Malcolm Dome Virgin ISBN 0 86369 908 1

AC/DC AC/DC Story by Paul Ezra 1982 Babylon books 1982

 The Himalaya AC/DC Song Book - 1993 Jay Shrestha, Rabin Joshi & Bikesh Shrestha.
One of the most unusual book on AC/DC. The Book contains transcriptions of the lyrics of many AC/DC songs, (Although the spelling is a bit creaky in places) and numerous pictures of the band, including a colour poster, though unfortunately there is not any new or different material is is a nice item for collectors.

For copies of the Himalaya AC/DC song book write to
The Himalaya
PO Box # 5235
Kathmandu
Nepal

 AC/DC AC/DC AC/DC - An Illustrated Record collectors Guide volume 1 & 2 by Chris Tesch (list all releases worldwide)

 AC/DC Best Of Their High Energy Hits "The Years With Bon Scott" Big3 Books

This book has music to a bunch of songs through Highway To Hell. The cover has a great series of pictures of the band...from the 'Day On The Green' concert at Oakland Coliseum in 1978. There are some nice pictures inside as well. There are also Angus and Bon cutout paper dolls included!!

"Here's your very own Angus Young paper doll, to bend, fold and mutilate... ...and your very own Bon Scott paper doll, cut him out and color him in... let your fantasies run wild!"


 Singing In The Dark A Rock 'N' Roll Roadie Steps Into The Light
Former AC/DC Roadie "Barry Taylor" wrote a book about his time as a roadie with AC/DC. He later went on to become a born again christian.

AC/DC Pictured on the left is the cover of the German version of the book.

Available in German at Amazon Germany
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Other books

Pictures of French & Foreign AC/DC books



Books which have references to AC/DC

Book about Countdown called "Glad all over - The Countdown years 1974 - 1987" by Peter Wilmoth

The last starfighter - Alan Dean Foster

Spellsinger series - Alan Dean Foster

The Gnole - Alan Aldridge

Short stories in Night Shift by Stephen King including
Different seasons - Stephen King
Skelton crew - Stephen King
Trucks - Stephen King (was made into the film Maximum overdrive)

Shaun Hutson also mentions AC/DC in some of his novels.

The Kill riff - David Schow

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