Malcolm Young was a strange, singular figure in rock and roll: a (possibly *the*) chief creative force in one of the world's biggest bands who spent most of his life avoiding the part of the stage closest to the audience, who shunned the spotlight everywhere else, and who was maybe the fourth-best-known-member of said band. Who else can claim that? Top of my head, the person who comes closest is DR. DRE, though he eventually decided that standing in front could be fun sometimes. Malcolm Young hung back next to his MARSHALL stacks for the better part of four decades, engineering one of the most distinctive, and consistent, sounds in the rock and roll canon with his virtuoso rhythm guitar playing. "WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE." "WHAT'S NEXT TO THE MOON." "BACK IN BLACK." "WHO MADE WHO." His younger brother ANGUS and singers BON SCOTT and BRIAN JOHNSON drove their squealing and squelching hot rods over bridges that Malcolm built and re-built time and time again. Malcolm created space for them. Literally. The secret to his greatness, besides his unique ability to swing while sounding like a metronome, was his instinct for when and what not to play. So many of AC/DC's greatest moments are testaments to blank space. Big spaces. Little spaces. They may have been one of the loudest bands ever to stand on an arena stage, but they never overplayed. The Young brothers wrote all the music together and while it's never been clear who did what exactly, here's Angus doing some AC/DCsplaining: "Mal's always been one to come up with melody ideas... Malcolm will dial in a melody, and likes to get it so it's all hooking together and feels right." Malcolm also tended to dial in Angus' guitar tone for him. He wasn't at the mic screaming and he wasn't wearing a schoolboy uniform. He was in the back with his 1963 GRETSCH JET FIREBIRD, detonating the rock and roll TNT like a veteran demolition expert. To those who have rocked for the last time, we salute you... The complicated and disturbing story behind MEEK MILL's imprisonment. And a plea to #FreeMeek from JAY-Z, writing on the NEW YORK TIMES op-ed page... The keywords "popular," "American" and "band" are all loaded in one way or another, but here's the statistical argument for why MAROON 5 are the 21st century kings of that... CMT is saying goodbye to NASHVILLE, the show not the city, which I stopped watching when I realized none of the show's mix-and-match couples was ever going to last more than three episodes, but damn a lot of good songs have passed through those scripts... NASHVILLE, the city not the show, continues to leaves its doors open to TAYLOR SWIFT... Commercial music supervisor BUZZY COHEN wins the JEOPARDY Tournament of Champions, with a little help from an '80s love songs category. Buzzy can thank LIONEL RICHIE and RICK ASTLEY for a portion of his $250,000 winnings... RIP also: MEL TILLIS, a hall of fame songwriter and performer, and BAMBINO GOLD... And thoughts, prayers and hugs to DAVID CASSIDY, PAM THE FUNKSTRESS and SCOTT MCCAUGHEY.