AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson is writing a book about his life, AP reports. Before pursuing an acting career, he was involved in applying vinyl roofs to cars.
In a phone conversation from his Florida home, Johnson, 75, said he never gave up on his dream of singing rock. “I always find the glass half full,” he says.
The memoir “The Life of Brian Johnson”, published by “Day Street Books”, tells the story of the singer who grew up near Newcastle, joining the band AC / DC and recording the album “Back in Black”.
“My goal was not to stand out, but to pay attention to all the wonderful people who have helped me in life: friends from school, friends from factories, friends from the world of music,” he also shared.
Music has always been a guiding star for Brian Johnson, writes BTA. He remembers the first time he heard Little Richard on the radio.
At first, Johnson is an aspiring engineer, a young father and a singing husband among other things. To earn money for a sound system, he enlisted in the British army. He later quit his engineering job and achieved some success with his band Geordie. But the group only had a Top 10 hit and soon broke up.
“I was 28 when I lost everything. My marriage, my career, my home,” Johnson wrote in his book. He moves to his parents’ house and starts his life anew. Then he started building roofs and founded a new group – “Georgi II”. “I thought this was my second version of the Cinderella story, but apparently more things had to happen,” Johnson says. Since then, it has been his famous trademark: a cap. In a hurry, not having time to change, glue and glass get into Johnson’s eyes. His brother Maurice gives him the hat.
Bon Scott, the first AC / DC frontman, died in 1980 and Johnson auditioned to replace him. Johnson’s testimony comes from Scott himself, who heard him sing before he died.
Brian Johnson’s editor Rowland White calls the singer’s story incredible. “Things in life don’t usually happen that way,” White says.
The book ends with Johnson’s primary goal in life being achieved. According to the singer, his memoir is not a book about the AC / DC band, because such a book would belong to the band members who were there from the beginning.
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