Talk:George Young (rock musician)

Nationality, Australian vs Scottish vs Scottish Born
If you're here to dispute the nationality of AC/DC, Angus, Malcolm, Stevie or George, please understand this, This topic has been discussed countless times here and at Angus Young or brother's Malcolm Young, Stevie Young or George Young articles. All brothers were born in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1963 they moved to Sydney, Australia. AC/DC was officially formed in 1973 in Australia. The consensus discussions (listed below) and the Wikipedia community have concluded that Angus Young, Malcolm. Stevie and AC/DC will be listed as Australian. Any changes to this fact will be promptly removed.

List of nationality discussions

Angus's discussions
 * Angus Young -- Scottish-Australian versus Australian
 * Australian
 * Angus, Malcolm George young Scottish born Austrialian musicians v just Austrialian musicians

Malcolm's discussions
 * Australian versus Scottish-Australian - Malcolm Young
 * Nationality

AC/DC discussions
 * An Australian rock band???
 * AC/DC plain and simple
 * ACDC and Scotland
 * ACDC is a Kiwi/British/Australian Band
 * Possible Mistakes

There are too many to list here, feel free to review other discussions at AC/DC Archive index

Year of birth
The French and Italian articles have 1947. The German has 1948. How can we be sure it's actually 1946? --  Jack of Oz   [your turn]  20:32, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Relationship to JPY
I suspect that he is not related to John Paul Young, whence the article should say (no relation). However, they were both born in Glasgow so ther may be - if so what is it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.41.222.1 (talk) 03:34, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

- they are definitely not related Flatoitlikealizarddrinking (talk) 11:07, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Guitar George?
A post on the "Songfacts" website about the Dire Straits song "Sultans of Swing" claimed that Young is the source of Mark Knopfler's reference to "Guitar George" and that "Harry" in the song (who "doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene") refers to Vanda. Any substance to this? Maccb (talk) 01:20, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed merge
Is this a joke? George Young (actor) has absolutely nothing to do with the musician.--Gorpik (talk) 11:55, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Removed it, made no sense at all. &mdash;Jonny Nixon (talk) 18:27, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Scottish-born Australian
Him, and his younger brothers Malcolm and Angus are Australian citizens, but they still Scottish-born. They may didn't hold Scottish nationality no more, but they were Scottish-born. I'm not affirming that they are Scottish-Australians, because if they were, they would hold dual nationality, but they don't. Scottish-born Australians are not the same as Scottish-Australians, because they don't hold dual citizenship. G. Picanço (talk) 18:54, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The article states that he was born in Scotland, so what is your point? By the way, there is no such thing as Scottish citizenship.--Gorpik (talk) 15:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)


 * See above notice. Thank you, -  FlightTime  ( open channel ) 23:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)