“It was all a bit exhausting and emotionally draining”: Meet the person who auditioned to interchange Bon Scott in AC/DC and Paul Di’Anno in Iron Maiden

When AC/DC supported Paul Kossoff’s post-Free band Again Avenue Crawler at London’s Marquee in Could 1976, it set a wierd sequence of occasions in movement. Angus and co. stayed mates with Crawler singer Terry Slesser and, following Bon Scott’s dying, Slesser discovered himself auditioning for the function of AC/DC frontman. In 2009 Slesser informed us the story.

“Trying up the dates on the AC/DC archive, it was the ‘Crawler’ model of Again Avenue Crawler that performed with AC/DC at London’s Marquee [on May 11 and 12, 1976]. Our guitarist Paul Kossoff died on March 19 that yr. We have been presupposed to headline Hyde Park with AC/DC supporting earlier than Koss took ailing the primary time.