WHEN WORD LEAKED last week of Malcolm Young’s hiatus from AC/DC, it signalled the first time in 40 years that his younger brother Angus would be playing alone. Anyone who knows AC/DC at all knows that the band won’t be nearly as good without the two of them together.

Sharing tour buses and hotel rooms are one thing, but there’s something particularly tricky about sharing parents with a bandmate. The kind of intimacy that comes from being raised in the same house and discovering music and life together is impossible to replicate — it’s an intimacy that, coupled with ego and artistic one-upsmanship, can drive even the most grounded bands mad…

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