![]() : 6–7 Stephen played the piano accordion and the piano, Young's sister Margaret was passionate about music, John played the guitar, Alexander was an accomplished singer, bass guitarist and saxophonist who in the early 1960s left for a career in music in Europe, and George and Malcolm eventually became founding members of the Easybeats and AC/DC respectively. Young spent the first seven years of his life in Cranhill. After the war William worked as a yard man for a builder and then as a postman. In 1940 William joined the Royal Air Force serving in World War II as a flight engine mechanic. Prior to moving to Cranhill, William worked first as a wheel boy in a rope works and then as a machine/saw operator in an asbestos/cement business. Cranhill was a tough, working-class suburb with high unemployment. In the 1950s, Young's father, William Young (1911–1985), his mother, Margaret (1913–1988 maiden name also Young), and his elder seven siblings lived at 6 Skerryvore Road in the Cranhill district of Glasgow in Scotland.
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