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An article from 2020.
In 2014 Malcolm Young was diagnosed with dementia. Over the years, the disease took more and more possession of his personality until he died in its consequences in 2017. Angus Young experienced his brother mentally. In an interview, he now says that the sound of a guitar Malcolm Young put a smile in the face until the end.
AC/DC front man Brian Johnson and Young were guests last Monday (November 16) on the program “Australia’s 60 Minutes” to talk about their career as well as about the brand new album “Power Up”.
Within the 60 minutes they also honored their former bandmate Malcolm Young and gave some of the countless guitar reef ideas that Malcom shot through their heads in his last years.
Terrible struggle with the disease
For Angus Young, the death of his brother due to dementia was not the worst of his illness, but to see how he struggled with the disease. “Because you knew him as someone and then had to see that this person was gone,” explains Young.
But when the brothers were together, Young lived up. “He smiled over both ears until the end when I entered the room. He always gave me a little joy,” recalls Young in tears.
The guitarist also tells that if he played on the guitar, Malcolm kept trying to tap his feet on the floor. “He always knew that I was with him and I stayed there to the end.”
In 2014, AC/DC came to the public with the statement that Malcolm Young had left the band because of dementia. His nephew Stevie Young stepped in his huge footsteps, played the rhythm guitar on the album “Rock or Bust” and the following tour. He can be heard again on her latest recordings.