Why wasn't Malcolm on the 1988 tour?

At the time there were two reasons (rumours) as to the nature of Malcolm's absence from the tour. The public one was that he was tending to a sick son, the real one was that his drinking was getting out of hand and he needed time to regain control of himself. He was replaced on the tour by Stevie Young.


Stevie Young is a nephew of Malcolm and Angus (and George, and Alex, etc.) who played rhythm guitar in a band of his own called Starfighters back in the early to mid 80's. I think they were based in England, and had a style and sound very much like AC/DC. which explains why Stevie fit in so naturally on the tour. By the way, the Starfighters albums (there were 2 I know of) are pretty interesting. Same approach as AC/DC - I heartily recommend the first (self titled), while the second (In Flight Movie) is ok, but not as good as the first.




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