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Video: AC/DC’s Angus Young emotionally recounts Malcolm Young’s dementia decline in interview

10 Bands With Brothers AC/DC: Angus and Malcolm Young ------ WILKES-BARRE, PA - OCTOBER 28: Singer Brian Johnson(L) and Angus Young of AC/DC perform during their "Black Ice" Tour Opener on October 28, 2008 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images) (Kevin Mazur)

In a recent interview with Australia’s “60 Minutes,” AC/DC guitarist Angus Young candidly discussed the passing of his brother, founding AC/DC rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young.

Writers for Blabbermouth.net report that Malcolm Young, who died in 2017 from dementia-related causes at age 64, is credited as a writer on all 12 tracks on AC/DC’s latest album, “Power Up.”

According to Angus Young, “music provided some of Malcolm’s greatest comfort in his final days, after he was moved into full-time care in a nursing home facility in Sydney, Australia’s eastern suburbs specializing in dementia,” Blabbermouth.net’s staffers write.

“I think the hardest part was not so much him passing, because that was a kind of end, a relief,” Angus said. “I think the worst part is the decline — that’s the hard part. Because of how you knew him, and then to see that that was gone.”

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