Former AC/DC Drummer PHIL RUDD Feeling “Twenty Years Younger And 100% Better” After Heart Attack

Former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd continues to recover from a recent heart attack and doctors have advised him not to embark on the promo trail for the re-release of his debut album Head Job quite yet. According to a press release, he is making a really good recovery and in his words he feels “twenty years younger and 100% better.”

Head Job will see a wide release this September 30th via Wave 365 Media.

Described by Malcolm Young, co-founder of AC/DC, as “the real deal”, Phil Rudd the band’s long term drummer, played in several Melbourne bands such as Buster Brown and The Coloured Balls before joining up with the rock giants in 1975.  

Rudd powered the band to superstardom with his dogged consistency and unshakeable backbeat on classics like “It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock ’N’ Roll)”, “TNT” and “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”, becoming an indelible part of AC/DC history.

Rudd has appeared on all but three of AC/DC’s 18 studio albums, which have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. When the blockbusting album Highway To Hell went multi-platinum worldwide, Rudd said he ‘‘went straight down the road to buy my first Ferrari’’ sparking a lifelong love of luxury cars. Rudd showcased eleven of his luxury cars in Christchurch, New Zealand as part of an earthquake appeal fundraiser, his current collection includes a rare 1991 Ferrari F40, a brand new Ferrari 599, two Lamborghinis, a 2010 Rolls Royce Ghost, 2011 Bentley Mulsanne and Bentley super sport, Audi R8 V10, a 2011 Aston Martin DBS and 2010 Mercedes SLS AMG. The cars have a combined worth of approximately $3m. Rudd’s airport hangar is also home to his MD 520N helicopter.

With the lavish rock star lifestyle firmly in place, Phil Rudd recorded and released his first debut album, Head Job, with Kiwi musicians Allan Badger and Geoffrey Martin in 2014. The album was released via Universal Music Group in Australia and New Zealand but further promotional plans were scuppered by well publicised legal problems in New Zealand.

Rudd served an eight month home detention sentence which thwarted the 2014 release of Head Job but 2016 sees him determined to leave his problems in the past. He has embraced a more positive lifestyle and says his “hell raising days are over…  I see a psychiatrist once a week and I’m closer than ever to my children. I still have all my flash cars but now I want to grow chillies”.

Head Job tracklisting:

“Head Job”
“Sun Goes Down”
“Lonely Child”
“Lost in America”
“Crazy”
“Bad Move”
“No Right”
“The Other Side”
“Forty Days”
“Repo Man”
“When I Get My Hands on You”

“Repo Man” lyric video: