Brian Johnson is no Bon Scott, but he’s got balls. Kudos to this raunchy Australian for pointing out how pretentious and self-absorbed it is to give and not be silent.
From The Huffington Post:
AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson is taking on Bono and Bob Geldof for their public displays of charity work.
“When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa,” he told Melbourne’s Herald Sun. “I’m sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry. I become all tyrannical.”
Johnson said that his own band prefers to make their charitable contributions in private.
“Do a charity gig, fair enough, but not on worldwide television,” he said.
[Read more at The Huffington Post]
