Dave Evans has claimed that he was axed from heavy metal band AC/DC because he was too popular with female fans.

Brothers Malcolm and Angus Young were thought to have kicked the former frontman out in 1974 because they considered him to be a glam rocker.

But Evans put the decision down to envy, telling Blasting-Zone.com: "Some guys get jealous if you're getting too many girls and the other guys are missing out. I didn't really pay too much attention to it, but it just started getting worse and worse until the end where I was virtually going out without them [bandmates]".

He revealed that matters deteriorated further when he argued with manager Dennis Laughlin over the group's finances, saying: "We were worried where all the money was going to. We were doing top gigs... We'd had a top five hit and we were scraping together money. So we were all a bit worried about what was happening.

"I'm sure if the manager had explained to us where all the money was going, it would have been OK, but we didn't know what was going on and it came to a head one time. I learned very quickly that you don't go beating up your manager. That was the end of it, really."

Evans was replaced by Bon Scott and the Australian rockers went on to sell an estimated 150 millions albums worldwide.