The rock and roll group took successful on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, when it was introduced that AC/DC’s authentic drummer, Colin Burgess, had handed away. He was 77 years previous.
No reason for dying was given within the announcement, made through the band’s Instagram web page, the place uncredited members of the rock group despatched the late musician off with a solemn “rock in peace.”
Born Nov. 16, 1946, Burgess was a frequent presence in Australian rock music. The bands that he performed with have been multitudinous: The Untamed, The Haze, The Masters Apprentice, and many others. However it was the drummer’s transient stint with AC/DC that introduced him into the highlight. Burgess carried out with the group for simply 4 months — from November 1973 to February of the next 12 months — when he was let go for being drunk throughout a efficiency. It was an incidence that he would later blame on a surreptitiously spiked drink, however regardless of the trigger, the injury was carried out.
Burgess’ exit sparked a cascade of alternative drummers that took a 12 months to resolve itself, night out in early 1975 with the band’s recruitment of Phil Rudd. In a no-hard-feelings second that you simply don’t see sufficient of within the music trade, Burgess was introduced again into the AC/DC fold briefly later that very same 12 months, subbing in for Rudd whereas he recovered from a hand harm.
Within the years after his stint with surprisingly-recent-Grammy-nominees AC/DC, Burgess continued to rock, serving to to type the band His Majesty along with his brother, Denny, along with The Burgess Brothers Band, later rebranded as Burgess Burgess. In 1998, each Burgesses recovered from a extreme automotive accident, which might partly encourage a 2005 documentary, The Comeback Kings.
