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“We’re done,” Brian Johnson says about the new AC/DC album, their 15th. “I’m very excited and we’ve got some great songs.” That’s what he told Metal Hammer from his hometown of Newcastle, where the singer was picking up...Brian Johnson: AC/DC ‘very likely’ to be touring this year
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