Stevie Younger, who performs guitar for legendary Australian rock band AC/DC, has been hospitalized in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, however continues to be anticipated to carry out subsequent week, a spokesperson for the band advised Reuters on Thursday.
“Out of an abundance of warning, he was admitted to a neighborhood hospital the place he’s present process a full battery of checks,” the spokesperson mentioned of the 69-year-old Glasgow-born musician.
“Stevie is doing nicely and is in good spirits. He’s trying ahead to getting on stage on Monday.”
AC/DC, some of the influential rock bands of the previous half-century, is scheduled to carry out in Buenos Aires on March 23, 27 and 31 as a part of their worldwide “Energy Up” tour.
The band final performed a present days earlier in Santiago, Chile. They’re scheduled to play in Mexico Metropolis by early April.
ARGENTINE FAN BASE
Exterior the posh 4 Seasons resort, a few dozen followers gathered behind a fringe fence ready for band members to reach as a number of resort safety guards stood on the entrances.
AC/DC has lengthy maintained a powerful following in South America, notably in Argentina, whose president Javier Milei is a professed rock fan and has repeatedly belted out steel songs at rallies, donning a leather-based jacket.
AC/DC final traveled to Argentina in 2009.
There was such excessive demand for the primary live performance on the metropolis’s Estadio Monumental – which might maintain 85,000 individuals – that the band introduced two extra live shows, which rapidly offered out.
The stadium, house to the River Plate soccer staff, has hosted acts together with the Rolling Stones, Roger Waters, Coldplay and Argentine rock legends Soda Stereo. AC/DC attracted almost 200,000 followers throughout their final go to over 16 years in the past.
Over time, band members have skilled health-related setbacks, pauses, and modifications.
Younger himself changed his uncle Malcolm Younger – who co-founded the band – in 2014, three years earlier than he died aged 64 after affected by dementia. His uncle had based the band in 1973 in Sydney together with his brother Angus.
Bon Scott, the lead singer throughout the band’s rise by way of the Nineteen Seventies, died in 1980 after an evening of heavy consuming.
Present lead singer Brian Johnson stepped away in 2016 due to listening to points earlier than later returning. Drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams have additionally cycled out and in of the band over varied durations.
