Whether the cause be Ethiopia or Haiti, AC/DC’s lead singer Brian Johnson thinks it’s inappropriate for multimillionaire stars to go before the camera and ask regular joes for money to help people in distress.
In an interview with Australia’s The Daily Telegraph, the singer explains that he thinks people do not want some rich celebrity telling them to think about hungry children. “I don’t tell everybody they should give money – they can’t afford it.”
Johnson remembers what it was like when he was broke. “When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. Do a charity gig, fair enough, but not on worldwide television.”
AC/DC won its first ever Grammy in 37 years at the awards show last Sunday (January 31). The band has been on tour since last year promoting Black Ice and is getting ready to perform in Australia for the first time in 9 years.