The Sunday Post (Inverness)

For those about to rock: Celebrity fans salute stadium icons

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Texas singer Sharleen Spiteri, Fran Healy, of Travis, and actor Paul Riley, who plays Winston in Still Game, hail the enduring Australian rockers

AC/DC were part of my growing up musically and visually too with Angus in his school uniform.

I’d play their songs at rehearsals or soundcheck­s with Texas because our guitarist Ally Mcerlaine was a big fan.

In 2017, we were playing Carfest in Cheshire – an event founded by DJ Chris Evans – when there was a knock on my dressing room door.

Singer Rick Astley walked in and said: ‘You don’t happen to know Highway To Hell, do you?’ He wanted me to sing it with him and his band.

We didn’t have time to rehearse it. I said: ‘Let’s just do it and have some fun’. It’s great to do a song people would never expect you to perform, right off the cuff. I knew Highway To Hell from back to front.

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