Stevie Young, who plays guitar for ‌Australian rock band AC/DC, has been hospitalised in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires but is still expected ‌to perform next week, a spokesperson for the band says.

“Out of an abundance of ‌caution, he was admitted to a local hospital where he is undergoing a full battery of tests,” the spokesperson said of the 69-year-old Glasgow-born musician.

“Stevie is doing well and is in good spirits. He is looking forward to getting on stage on Monday.”

AC/DC, one of the most influential ‌rock bands of ‌the past half-century, ⁠is scheduled to perform in Buenos Aires on March 23, 27 ​and 31 as part of their international Power Up tour.

The band last played a show days earlier in Santiago, Chile.

Outside the luxury Four Seasons hotel, about a dozen fans gathered behind a perimeter fence waiting for band members to arrive as several hotel security guards stood at the entrances.

AC/DC has long ⁠maintained a strong following in South America, particularly in ‌Argentina. ​

However, the band last travelled there in 2009.

There was such high demand for the first concert ​at the city’s ‌Estadio Monumental – which can hold 85,000 people – that the band announced two more concerts, which ​rapidly sold out.

Over the years, band members have experienced health-related setbacks, pauses and changes.

Young himself replaced his uncle Malcolm Young – who co-founded the band – in 2014, three years before ​he ​died aged 64 after suffering from dementia.

​His uncle had founded the band in 1973 in ‌Sydney with his brother Angus.

Bon Scott, the lead singer during the band’s rise through the 1970s, died in 1980 after a night of heavy drinking.

Current lead singer Brian Johnson stepped away in 2016 because of hearing issues before later returning.

Drummer Phil Rudd and bassist Cliff Williams have ​also cycled in and out of the band over various periods.