The consummate sideman, Cliff Williams has held down the bassist post in hard rock greats AC/DC for several decades, and yet he's always maintained an incredibly low profile, rarely speaking publicly and happily shunning the spotlight, for the most part.
Williams was born on December 14, 1949, in the London suburb of Romford, but when his family relocated to Liverpool in 1961, the pre-teen Williams was exposed to the Merseybeat movement head on, and soon decided to chart a course in music himself. By age 13, Williams was already playing bass in local bands, and by 16, he had...