
The day Geezer Butler pulled a knife on Malcolm Young in 1977: “Go to bed!”
Rock and roll is awash with bizarre, routinely tragic tales, but given the sheer volume of sleep-deprived, drug-addled maniacs in its ranks, it is a …

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