ACDC’s Back In Black Tutorial

AC/DC's Back In Black appears as the first song on the B side of the album, also entitled Back In Black and released in 1980.

Famous for the opening guitar riff played by Angus Young, the song is in fact a tribute to their ex-singer and friend Bon Scott.

Scott's replacement Brian Johnson who wrote the lyrics, was interviewed for Mojo magazine and said, “they said, ‘it can’t be morbid-it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.’” He added: “I thought, ‘Well nae pressure there, then‘ (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. ‘Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.’ The boys got it though. They saw Bon’s life in that lyric.”

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