Malcolm Young before he was famous

The nobody years

1. 

   1963 A migrant hostel hut

   In Sydney, the family's first home was a migrant-hostel hut.

   In the big freeze of 1963, a TV advert offered assisted passage to Australia. Source

2. 

   1968 Bra factory at fifteen

   At fifteen, his father sent him to the bra factory.

   He left school at fifteen, and his father put him to work as a mechanic in a bra factory. Source

3. 

   1973 Malcolm and Angus

   At twenty, he formed a band with his younger brother Angus.

   At twenty, he formed a band with his younger brother Angus. Source

4. 

   1973 A sewing machine name

   Their sister's sewing machine gave them the name AC/DC.

   They named it after the letters AC/DC on their sister's sewing machine. Source

5. 1953

   Was born in Glasgow; the family lived in the Cranhill district. Source

6. 1950s

   His father worked a saw in an asbestos-cement works, and later as a postman. Source

7. 1963

   Fifteen members of the Young family left Scotland that June. Source

8. 1963

   Their first home in Sydney was a Nissen hut at the Villawood migrant hostel. Source

9. 1960s

   Guitars were handed down in the family, from the older brothers to Malcolm, then Angus. Source

10. early 1970s

    Played in a short-lived Newcastle band called the Velvet Underground. Source

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