Almost two and a half years after it began, AC/DC’s ‘Energy Up’ tour will finish Friday night time with a present at MetLife Stadium exterior of New York Metropolis.
Which implies it is as soon as once more time to ask the query: Will this be the final time the legendary Australian laborious rock band ever performs dwell?
By no means essentially the most talkative bunch, AC/DC have been significantly tight-lipped about their plans (and lineup adjustments) in recent times. However in June they posted a video on social media selling the summer season 2026 dates, declaring that they have been going to “energy up one final time.”
The truth that they talked about the tour’s identify (additionally the title of their most up-to-date album, 2020’s Energy Up) would appear to counsel that they have been speaking in regards to the finish of this tour, not their touring profession.
However who is aware of?
Singer Brian Johnson will flip 79 on Monday (Oct. 5). Lead guitarist Angus Younger – the one remaining founding member of AC/DC – is 71. Rhythm guitarist Stevie Younger – who has taken over for his late uncle Malcolm Younger since 2014 – will flip 70 in December.
In some unspecified time in the future will a quiet retirement sound higher than the roar of the group?
(The band’s newly employed rhythm part – bassist Chris Chaney and drummer Matt Laug, who’re each about to finish their first tour with AC/DC – are a relatively spry 56 and 58 years outdated.)
AC/DC additionally appear to be creatures of behavior. For over 4 a long time they’ve solely toured after releasing a brand new studio album – apart from a quick 2003 run of particular live shows, timed to advertise the re-release of their catalog by way of Sony Music.
In the event that they stick with their traditional plan, we could also be in for an extended wait. The group has solely launched 4 albums within the final thirty years, with a six-year wait between their final three albums: 2008’s Black Ice, 2014’s Rock or Bust and Energy Up.
Partly as a result of COVID pandemic, followers waited eight years in between the 2015 finish of AC/DC’s trouble-plagued ‘Rock or Bust’ tour and the 2024 begin of the ‘Energy Up’ Tour. Begin the clock proper now, lower that point in half and you are still a 2030 return to the stage.
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In fact AC/DC might break with their conventional methods at a second’s discover. Perhaps they are going to launch their first-ever best hits report (amazingly, they’ve by no means launched one) and tour behind that subsequent 12 months.
Perhaps they’ve already secretly recorded a brand new album – though they appear to be photographed in Vancouver each time they begin to work on one. Or perhaps they will tour with none sort of new album. However all of these issues could be massive adjustments from their established methods.
If the band’s two senior members – Angus and Brian – do have any retirement plans they stored it to themselves throughout their one and solely interview up to now this 12 months. When requested by USA As we speak the place they’d prefer to carry out their last-ever present, Younger deftly dodged the query: “I hope it is not at my funeral.”
When requested what legacy they hope to depart behind, the duo’s solutions have been as no-nonsense as their music. “I’d simply say ‘an important rock band,'” replied Younger. Johnson was solely barely extra verbose: “They have been nice at what they did. They usually did it persistently.”
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These Aussies are nothing if not constant.
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