1. Brian at Santa Pod Raceway on Saturday 9th June : Jun 9th, 2013

      Brian at Santa Pod Raceway on Saturday 9th June

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      Rockers & Rollers Autobiography Interview (Video) : Jun 6th, 2013

      Filming for The Quest Channel TV series Cars That Rock with Brian Johnson : Jun 6th, 2013

      Filming for The Quest Channel TV series Cars That Rock with Brian Johnson

      visiting Rolls Royce factory, where he got to drive the yet to be released new Rolls Royce Wraith

      AC/DC’s Brian Johnson: Rock Icon (Sky Arts 1 HD) : Jun 2nd, 2013

      Next on: Wed 05 Jun 2013 at 1pm , Sky Arts 1 HD

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      The rock legend Brian Johnson is profiled in this documentary special by former MP and heavy metal rock fan Louise Mensch.

      As well documented, Johnson stepped into the shoes of original front man Bon Scott after his untimely death in 1980.

      Since then he took the band to even greater heights with hit albums Back in Black and For Those About to Rock We Salute You.

      Now living the life of luxury, Louise meets one of her girlhood idols uncovering the man behind the metal and finding out what makes him tick.

      She’ll also be discovering exactly what is is about this seemingly immortal genre of music that is so special.

      Original source: Sky Arts 1 HD

      Brian Johnson: Lots of Bands Rock … But Not Many Roll Too (The Sun Article) : Jun 2nd, 2013

      Brian Johnson: Lots of bands rock … but not many roll too
      Interview by: LOUISE MENSCH (The Sun)

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      BRIAN JOHNSON is at Brands Hatch in the pouring rain, stuck inside his temporary caravan.

      His wife Brenda is cooking up a gourmet dinner for his racing crew, but it’s far from the luxurious surroundings you’d expect to find a rock icon.

      Brian has three great romances in his life — his wife, his music, as the legendary frontman of rock behemoths AC/DC, and cars.

      Joining an already famous band at the age of 32 after the death of Bon Scott — their first frontman — Brian’s deep, rich voice and perfectly pitched lyrics made Back In Black the second biggest-selling album of all time.

      Fame, adoration and wealth followed. AC/DC’s last tour alone grossed £290million. So has it changed him? Has it hell.

      He says: “We don’t care about image. It’s pure. They all sneered at the time. The New Romantics — that was serious, all white suits and powdered hair. We ignored that. It was T-shirts and jeans.

      “Before that it was punk. We were still in T-shirts and jeans.”

      Critics ignored Back In Black. AC/DC weren’t fashionable. So how did they sell so many copies?

      Brian says: “We trusted the fans. We just worked. It was stardom maybe, but an honest stardom. Newcastle, Glasgow, we played them all.”

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      Rock is very masculine, I suggest, very sexual. And it’s rebellious — black leather and studs and two fingers to the Establishment, especially the critics and the record companies.

      He says: “It’s true. We never gave a second thought to what anyone else wanted.”

      My first metal gig was on my 18th birthday, and I was in the front row. The guitarist bent down and kissed me full on the mouth — one of the most intense experiences I’ve ever had.

      I got into metal late, Def Leppard first, then Metallica. Man’s music, uncompromising, heavy, with black-clad, long-haired rebels — a million miles from my comfortable Surrey school. I fell in love. I didn’t want to be a lawyer, I wanted to be in rock music, go to gigs, fight to the front row, go on tour.

      I toured with Guns N’ Roses for my record company job, the only woman in a tour bus full of roadies — when you can handle that you can handle anything.

      AC/DC were one of the last bands I saw as a pure fan, paying for my ticket and watching from the front. They inspired me to make my rock dreams come true.

      They stayed true to their sound, outlasting punk, Duran Duran, Rick Astley, Mötley Crüe and Oasis. As the hair-metal bands of the Eighties peeled away, AC/DC were still behemoths. Why?

      Brian acknowledges the sexiness of his vocals, the bump and grind of AC/DC’s down-and-dirty songs, and the beats drummer Phil Rudd leaves OUT.

      He says: “A lot of bands know how to rock. Not many know how to roll.”

      As a young rock fan I watched AC/DC headline Donington. I loved them so much I queued to bump and grind in their Thunderstruck video, shot in Brixton, south-west London.

      I freaked out so much that the director stopped the filming, pointed at me and said: “All of you lot need to bang it like HER.”

      More than 20 years later I’m talking to Brian and that sexiness and power is still there.

      Does it please him that all the anti-metal critics and bands have come and gone and he’s still outselling the youngsters?

      He admits: “More a quiet satisfaction. That you can stay true to what you love. That was our philosophy, we believed we got it right in the first place.”

      Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4950681/louise-mensch-meets-acdc-brian-johnson.html#ixzz2V53H5y9n

      Brian at Radio Newcastle doing an interview with Charlie (30/05/2013) : May 30th, 2013

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      Brian at Brands Hatch (Pictures) : May 28th, 2013

      Photos from the making of a new tv series about cars for the discovery channel : May 24th, 2013

      Brian with Paddy Hopkirk and the classic mini…

      Patrick Barron “Paddy” Hopkirk (born 14 April 1933) is a former rally driver from Northern Ireland.  He was born in Belfast and educated at Clongowes Wood College in County Kildare from 1945–1949 before attendingTrinity College, Dublin until 1953. He started his winning career in professional racing and rally driving in 1955. Alongside Henry Liddon he won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S car number 37, license plate/registration tag 33 EJB. They are the most recent all-British crew to have won the event.  Hopkirk also travelled to Australia during his career to drive for the BMC Works Team in the annual Bathurst 500 race for standard production cars at the Mount Panorama Circuit. He drove at Bathurst in a Morris Cooper S from 1965–1967, obtaining a best result of 6th outright and 3rd in class in the 1965 Armstrong 500 when paired with another great rally driver, Timo Mäkinen of Finland. In 1965, Hopkirk also won a Coupe d’Argent at the Alpine Rally.  He was elected as a life member of the British Racing Drivers’ Club in 1967, and is also president of the Historic Rally Car Register, and a patron of disability charity WheelPower. In 2010, Hopkirk was among the first four inductees into the Rally Hall of Fame, along with Mäkinen, Rauno Aaltonen and Erik Carlsson.

      Come and meet Brian Johnson… : May 3rd, 2013

      SAT 25th – MON 27th – The Masters Historic Festival (Brands Hatch)
      Come and meet ‘Brian Johnson of AC/DC’

      Come and meet...

      Goodwood 2012 : Jan 16th, 2013

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