Rock elders AC/DC back on road in 2016 | Inquirer Entertainment

Rock elders AC/DC back on road in 2016

/ 10:53 AM December 16, 2015

Angus Young

Angus Young of AC/DC performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. AP FILE PHOTO

NEW YORK—AC/DC will open their latest tour on February 2 in Tacoma, Washington playing 20 dates across the United States, ending with an April 4 show at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

The rockers will then head to Europe, starting on May 7 in Lisbon and culminating on June 12 at a 46,000-capacity park in Aarhus, Denmark.

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The tour follows a busy 2015 that featured 53 shows around the world including a headlining appearance at Coachella in California, one of the world’s pre-eminent music festivals.

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The band capped the year on Tuesday with a show before more than 30,000 fans in Auckland, New Zealand.

AC/DC, who also released an album last year following a six-year gap, returned without founding member Malcolm Young, who has retired due to dementia.

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READ: AC/DC kicks off 57th Grammy Awards show

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The band has also parted ways with drummer Phil Rudd, who was convicted in New Zealand of threatening to kill an employee.

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Young’s brother Angus remains the lead guitarist — known, even at age 60, for sporting his signature schoolboy outfit.

Lead singer Brian Johnson, 68, said in an interview in September that AC/DC members were “constantly surprised and amazed at how we keep the success going.”

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“A good footballer, a good ice hockey player, they don’t want to retire, but unfortunately sometimes there’s a time when you have to call it quits,” he told the Morning Sun newspaper in Michigan.

“So it’s an ongoing thing with us; we never say no, and we never say never.”

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