Headbanging kingpins AC/DC have had a supersized influence on the world of hard rock. Credit guitarist Angus Young, whose towering, thunderbolt riffs have informed Van Halen's bluesy flamboyance as well as Buckcherry's punk-metal fireballs. Even Guns N' Roses, between Axl Rose's yowling vocals and Slash's red-hot guitar licks, built their craft upon AC/DC's metallic blueprint.