Malcolm Young retires

[Basvarken]

AC/DC co-founder, guitarist and songwriter Malcolm Young, whose retirement from the band was announced on Wednesday, has been moved into full-time care in a nursing home facility in Sydney's eastern suburbs specialising in dementia, sources connected to the Young family have said...   

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/acdcs-malcolm-young-reportedly-in-care-for-dementia-in-sydney-20140925-10m1hs.html

[godofthunder]

Sad. What a horrible way to go out. His playing was the thing I most liked about the band.

[mc2NY]

Man, that sucks.

Sad that after decades of drugs and drink to get fked up out of his mind that he would end up that way. The guy certainly had a good run though.

[Iome]

That's sad, they expected him to join back for the next tour, but obviosly it isn't so. The new album was recorded with his nephew on rhythmguitar who's also going on tour with them next year.
Last album and last tour, sad Malcolm didn't make it.

[nofi]

one thing leads to another. very sad. i am quite sure that forty years of alcohol and drug abuse helped malcolm end up like this.

[luve2fli]

Sad that after decades of drugs and drink to get fked up out of his mind that he would end up that way.

Sad ...... but not at all surprising.

[amptech]

The best rythm guitarist ever! Hope he gets better...

[Highlander]

Unfortunately, dementia is a very slow but ever steeper downhill run; the brakes have failed; there's a hairpin bend near the bottom; oh, and did I mention the drop, and that there's no guardrail, and by the time you get there you won't remember the journey...
So far, sadly, there is no reversal to this condition...
I can perceive of a number of ends but, imho, seldom are any so bad as this... the slow loss of everything and everyone you've ever known... about as cruel a curve-ball as life can throw you...

[Denis]

It's really too bad. The one time I saw AC/DC in 1988 will be one of the concerts I remember most. It was also easily one of the loudest! What a blast.

[Dave W]

Damned shame.

Reminds me of how shocked I was when Skip Battin died of Alzheimer's at 59. Dementia is terrible enough when you're older, but early onset makes me even sadder.

Maybe alcohol contributed to it, maybe not. It can't have helped, that's for sure. OTOH teetotalers get dementia too.

[Lightyear]

I read that earlier this week - damn shame.

[Hörnisse]

Very sad news.  I still recall the first time I heard Back In Black.  I love their Let There Be Rock concert film too.  Watched it at many a midnight movie back in the 1980's.

[godofthunder]

My mother died at 65 from early onset Alzheimer. It was almost a 10 year slide. Horrible for everyone. Broke my dad he died 9 months after she went. I'm glad I'm adopted.

[rahock]

one thing leads to another. very sad. i am quite sure that forty years of alcohol and drug abuse helped malcolm end up like this.

Unfortunately living like a rock star is a lot more glamorous than dying like a rock star. Very sad way to go down. I watched my mother do it.
Rick

[uwe]

Sad, but he will hopefully be excellently cared for and not realize his own condition too much.