George Young

George Young is the kind of behind-the-scenes figure I find endlessly fascinating, because his fingerprints are on far more music than his name suggests. Born in Glasgow but making his mark in Australia, he founded The Easybeats and later Flash and the Pan, then formed the legendary Vanda and Young partnership with Harry Vanda. Co-writing Friday on My Mind and Love Is in the Air is a songwriting legacy most artists would kill for. What gets me is that he was also the producer steering early AC/DC, his younger brothers' band. He passed in 2017, but that catalogue keeps working.

Name (English)

George Young

Name (Japanese)

ジョージ・ヤング

Reading

じょーじ・やんぐ

Born

November 6, 1946 – October 23, 2017

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Origin

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Occupation

bassist / guitarist / songwriter / record producer / musician

High school

Sefton High School

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%20(%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B8%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3)

Tags

• bassist
• guitarist
• songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.