STUFF BOOKS & DVD

Let There Be Rock: The Story Of AC/DC

Susan Masino OMNIBUS PRESS

Disappointing all-surface, no-depth hagiography.

Given the mileage covered in Mick Wall’s AC/DC biography Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be and Jesse Fink’s in-depth tomes The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC and Bon: The Last Highway, you’d think that just about everything that needed to be said about this rock’n’roll behemoth had indeed been said. And as if to prove the point comes this book that manages to say very little across some 300 pages.

Originally published in 2006, this updated version – which takes us up to 2019 and the brink of the first new material since Rock Or Bust – is an exercise in tedium. Resolutely failing to nail the band’s enduring popularity, Masino gives absolutely no insights into the behind-the-scenes machinations and who and what they’ve crushed in order to keep the band rolling this far.

This is made all the