After years of being played on the radio daily, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson is now set to host his own radio series.
“Brian Johnson’s Rockers and Rollers” will kick off on BBC Radio 2 on Thursday, August 30 at 10pm.
The series, which runs for six weeks, will provide a soundtrack to Brian’s life featuring music from ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – and there’ll be plenty of car talk too.
“Basically, I wrote a book called Rockers and Rollers, not about me, there’s enough of them,” he tells the Sunday Sun. “My memory is terrible, but cars always help me remember things. If someone asked ‘What’s the name of the girl you went out with when you were 19?’ you couldn’t remember, but you’d remember having a Mini Cooper. Cars started to get cool and groovy when rock and roll started – when Ike Turner brought out 'Rocket 88' it was about his car, the thing he loved.”
Johnson admits putting it together was tougher than he expected.
“Everyone thinks doing radio is just sitting down, you put a mic in front of you and just waffle, but it’s not that easy,” he explains. “I sat in this studio with a big black mic in front of us and not an idea. Thankfully Ben Jones and Dan Cocker helped me out. I have to thank those two.”
Earlier this year, both Johnson and AC/DC guitarist Malcolm Young – in separate interviews – mentioned the band would be regrouping to begin work on a new album, the follow up to 2008’s “Black Ice.”
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