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Angus & Malcolm Young childhood home location (Scotland)

6 Skerryvore Rd, Cranhill
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

55.8654° N · -4.1611° W

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What happened here?

The Young family lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in Cranhill, a post-war housing estate in Glasgow's East End, before emigrating to Australia in 1963. Malcolm Young was born in Glasgow in 1953; Angus was born in 1955. Their older brother George Young, who would go on to form the Easybeats and become a prominent Australian music producer, was also part of the family. The Cranhill address is the origin point of one of rock's most remarkable family stories: the children of a Scottish shipworker who would collectively transform Australian music.

Cranhill in the 1950s was a typical post-war council estate built to house families relocated from Glasgow's demolished inner-city slums. The housing was modest, the community tight-knit, and the working-class culture deeply musical. Scottish emigrants were among the largest groups taking up the Australian government's Ten Pound Pom scheme in the early 1960s, and the Young family's departure for Sydney in 1963 placed them in Burwood, where the younger boys would eventually form AC/DC a decade later. George preceded them in the music business and gave Malcolm and Angus a model and a mentor.

The house at 6 Skerryvore Road still stands in Cranhill and is a private residence with no official heritage designation. Cranhill itself remains a council estate area of Glasgow and bears no visible acknowledgement of having produced the architects of one of the loudest bands in history. The connection is documented in AC/DC biographies and is known to fans who make the Glasgow pilgrimage, but the address is quiet and unremarked.

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