Rock & roll on the river

Al Hoffman, the Florida developer best known for building some of the largest residential communities on the Gulf Coast, sold his Fort Myers mansion to the heavy metal rocker Cliff Williams.

Memo to neighbors: Buy earplugs.

Williams is the bassist for AC/DC, a band known for such deafening hits as Highway to Hell and Back in Black. Williams and his wife Georganne Williams paid $5.1 million for the 16,473-foot luxury home on the Caloosahatchee River, property records show.

Williams isn't the only aging rocker to call Fort Myers home. Rickey Medlocke, the guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, also lives in town.

Hoffman, who built WCI Communities and later became U.S. ambassador to Portugal, recently moved to Palm Beach.

It's quieter there.