Current: throw the knife switch and the band’s places swing north and south of the equator like an alternating current, or flatten into one truck ride down Swanston Street; fill Federation Square with 374 pipers, try to bolt the slash onto the lane sign, and halve the tape speed until a one-ton Loughborough bell sounds like eight.
musicCurrent: throw the knife switch and the band’s places swing north and south of the equator like an alternating current, or flatten into one truck ride down Swanston Street; fill Federation Square with 374 pipers, try to bolt the slash onto the lane sign, and halve the tape speed until a one-ton Loughborough bell sounds like eight.
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On Monday 23 February 1976 the ABC’s Countdown filmed AC/DC playing It’s a Long Way to the Top on the back of one of its own flatbed trucks, travelling south down Swanston Street with ordinary traffic. At one point a tram overtook them.
A public street and square in the middle of the city, by Flinders Street Station.
On the same day as the pipers, AC/DC were booked at the MCG, a short walk from Federation Square: their first Australian show in a decade.
Tours run daily, with varied hours on event days: adults $38, concession $26, children 5 to 15 $17, a family of four $91.
In 2004 Melbourne City Council looked at renaming Corporation Lane, a narrow downtown alley, after the band, as an alternative to giving them the keys to the city.
A public lane off Flinders Lane, in the middle of the city. Walk in at any hour.
Current: throw the knife switch and the band’s places swing north and south of the equator like an alternating current, or flatten into one truck ride down Swanston Street; fill Federation Square with 374 pipers, try to bolt the slash onto the lane sign, and halve the tape speed until a one-ton Loughborough bell sounds like eight.
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