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AC/DC"s mammoth power chord roar became one of the most influential hard rock sounds of the "70s. In its own way, it was a reaction against the pompous art rock and lumbering arena rock of the early "70s. AC/DC"s rock was minimalist — no matter how huge and bludgeoning the guitar chords were, there was a clear sense of space and restraint. Combined with Bon Scott"s larynx-shredding vocals, the band spawned countless imitators over the next two decades. AC/DC were formed in 1973 in Australia by guitarist Malcolm Young after his band, the Velvet Underground, collapsed (Young"s band has no relation to the seminal American group). With his younger brother Angus as lead guitarist, the band played some gigs around Sydney. Angus was only 15 years old at the time and his sister suggested that he should wear his school uniform on-stage; the look became the band"s visual trademark. While still in Sydney, the original lineup featuring singer Dave Evans cut a single called "Can I Sit Next to You," with ex-Easybeats Harry Vanda and George Young (Malcolm and Angus" older brother) producing.
The band moved to Melbourne the following year, where drummer Phil Rudd (formerly of the Coloured Balls) and bassist Mark Evans joined the band. The band"s chauffeur, Bon Scott, became the lead vocalist when singer Dave Evans refused to go on-stage. Previously, Scott had been vocalist for the Australian prog rock bands Fraternity and the Valentines. More importantly, he helped cement the group"s image as brutes — he had several convictions on minor criminal offenses and was rejected by the Australian Army for being "socially maladjusted." And AC/DC were socially maladjusted. Throughout their career they favored crude double entendres and violent imagery, all spiked with a mischievous sense of fun.
The group released two albums — High Voltage and TNT — in Australia in 1974 and 1975. Material from the two records comprised the 1976 release High Voltage in the U.S. and U.K.; the group also toured both countries. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap followed at the end of the year. Mark Evans left the band at the beginning of 1977, with Cliff Williams taking his place. In the fall of 1977, AC/DC released Let There Be Rock, which became their first album to chart in the U.S. Powerage, released in spring of 1978, expanded their audience even further, thanks in no small part to their dynamic live shows (which were captured on 1978"s live If You Want Blood You"ve Got It). What really broke the doors down for the band was the following year"s Highway to Hell, which hit number 17 in the U.S. and number eight in the U.K., becoming the group"s first million-seller.
AC/DC"s train was derailed when Bon Scott died on February 20, 1980. The official coroner"s report stated he had "drunk himself to death." In March, the band replaced Scott with Brian Johnson. The following month, the band recorded Back in Black, which would prove to be its biggest album, selling over ten million copies in the U.S. alone. For the next few years, the band was one of the largest rock bands in the world, with For Those About to Rock We Salute You topping the charts in the U.S. In 1982, Rudd left the band; he was replaced by Simon Wright.
After 1983"s Flick of the Switch, AC/DC"s commercial standing began to slip; they were able to reverse their slide with 1990"s The Razor"s Edge, which spawned the hit "Thunderstruck." While not the commercial powerhouse they were during the late "70s and early "80s, the "90s saw them maintain their status as a top international concert draw. In the fall of 1995, their 16th album, Ballbreaker, was released. Produced by Rick Rubin, the album received some of the most positive reviews of AC/DC"s career. Ballbreaker entered the American charts at number four and sold over a million copies in its first six months of release. Stiff Upper Lip followed in early 2000 with similar results. The group signed a multi-album deal with Sony the following year that resulted in a slew of reissues and DVDs. The band returned to the studio in 2008 for Black Ice, an all-new collection of songs that was followed by the group"s first world tour since 2001.
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就世界观来说还是有一些不同
巴哈姆特的paul78607先生解释的很明白,在此转载他的文章。
DC和Marvel世界观两者的差异
Marvel的地球稍微比较会跟现实做结合
比方说会有现实的名人,艺人或者时事等
出现在漫画故事中, DC也有这样子的故事
但如果要比较的话频率不多就是了.....
Marvel世界的城市和都会比较少在发展
最起码美国东海岸的部份最明显
由於包括种族偏见在内的许多原因
突变人这个种族在Marvel的世界里
较常受一般人迫害甚至还被公开攻击
相对的在DC世界不常有类似行动的出现
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More than three decades into a career that shows no signs of slowing down or letting up, AC/DC, like electricity itself, provides the world with an essential source of power and energy. Since forming in 1973, AC/DC"s high voltage rock "n" roll has flowed out into the world via consistently sold-out concert tours and global sales totaling more than 150 million albums and counting. Sony BMG Music Entertainment"s #1 best-selling catalog act worldwide, AC/DC has sold nearly 70 million albums in the U.S. alone, making AC/DC one of the five top-selling bands in American music history. One of the group"s best-loved works, the enormously successful and influential "Back In Black," has achieved RIAA "Double Diamond" status, for sales in excess of 22 million copies in the United States, and is the U.S."s fifth largest-selling album ever.
But the roots of AC/DC lie back in Australia, and before that Glasgow, Scotland, where Angus and Malcolm Young, the musical core of the band (and still the most formidable guitar team in rock history), were born (in 1958 and 1953, respectively). In 1963, the Young family migrated to Sydney, Australia, where music would make its mark on the brothers. (As a member of the Easybeats, Angus and Malcolm"s older sibling, George Young, was responsible for one of Australia"s first international hits, "Friday On My Mind," in 1966. From 1974 through 2000, George and musical collaborator, Harry Vanda, produced a number of AC/DC albums including "High Voltage,," "T.N.T.," "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," "Let There Be Rock," "If You Want Blood You"ve Got It," "Powerage," ""74 Jailbreak," "Who Made Who," "Blow Up Your Video," and "Stiff Upper Lip.")
Taking a cue and encouragement from their older brother"s musical success, Angus and Malcolm Young formed their own rock "n" roll combo and premiered their inimitable interlocking guitar sound on December 31, 1973 at a New Year"s Eve gig at Sydney"s Chequers Club.
Calling their new rock band "AC/DC" (from the back of a sewing machine owned by their sister, Margaret), Angus and Malcolm moved from Sydney to Melbourne and began plowing through numerous line-ups searching for a solid rhythm section and a lead singer whose voice could match the manic assault of the Young brothers" guitars. The newly-christened AC/DC found its spiritual sparkplug in Bon Scott, a hard-living, hard-loving, hard-playing wild-eyed rabble-rousing singer who"d once "auditioned" for the band when he"d worked for them as a roadie and driver back in Sydney. With Bon Scott, another born Scotsman who"d relocated to Australia as a lad, in place as co-frontman to Angus"s trademark raffish schoolboy-in-knickers, AC/DC was ready to electrify the world.
Quickly signed by George Young to the Albert Records label in Australia, AC/DC kicked out its first Australian album releases, 1974"s "High Voltage" (a somewhat different album from the US "High Voltage") and 1975"s "T.N.T." With each album achieving silver, gold, and platinum status in Australia, AC/DC embarked on a regime of relentless touring that would become one of the most enduring hallmarks of the band"s career.
In 1976, having conquered their very first continent, AC/DC set off for Great Britain. When the band"s no-holds-barred double-barrel rock "n" roll landed them a residency at the prestigious Marquee Club, AC/DC promptly broke the venue"s all-time house attendance record. AC/DC"s days in clubland would not last much longer. Within a year, "Let There Be Rock," the band"s first simultaneous world release and first to use the unmistakable AC/DC logo -- raised metallic Gothic lettering separated by Zeus"s own lightning bolt -- would catapult them into the stadium strata. AC/DC was ready to take on America.
The summer of 1977 found AC/DC performing a dizzying crisscross of American gigs, ranging from clubs like the Palladium and CBGB in New York and the Whiskey in Los Angeles to sprawling venues like the Jacksonville Coliseum. By 1978, AC/DC was one of the hottest concert attractions in the world. For the group"s next studio album, they teamed up with producer Mutt Lange to create the undeniable hard rock masterpiece, 1979"s "Highway To Hell," the first AC/DC album to break into the US Top 100 and the first to go gold in America. In November of that year, the band went to Paris to film the monumental "Let The Be Rock" concert film, a quintessential document of a golden moment in the band"s rise to world fame.
On February 19, 1980, with the band finding genuine success around the world, lead singer Bon Scott died in London at the age of 33. Reeling from the shock of the loss of their boisterous soulful lead singer, the surviving members of AC/DC decided there was only one way to pay proper tribute to Bon Scott: carry on and create the music he"d want them to make.
The group found an incredibly simpatico new lead singer and frontman in Brian Johnson, a Newcastle native who"d sung in a band Bon Scott raved about called Geordie. Returning to the studio with Mutt Lange, AC/DC and the group"s new vocalist created "Back In Black," one of the best-selling albums, in any musical genre, of all-time. Powered by the title track and the anthemic "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Back In Black" hit #1 in the UK and #4 in the US, where it has gone on to achieve 22x platinum (double Diamond plus) status.
AC/DC continued releasing best-selling albums through the 1980s and 1990s accompanied by strings of sold-out tours and major headlining concert and festival performances -- including attendance-record-smashing concerts on the "Monsters of Rock," Castle Donington, "Rock In Rio," and 1991"s "Rock Around The Bloc" festival at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, a free concert attended by close to one million fans.
On September 15, 2000, AC/DC was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame and had their hands imprinted in the cement in front of the Guitar Center on Hollywood Boulevard.
On March 10, 2003, AC/DC was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Aerosmith"s Steve Tyler performed the induction, sang "You Shook Me All Night Long" with AC/DC during the ceremony and described the group"s signature power chords and timelessly enduring rock "n" roll as "...the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body."