AC/DC’s Bon Scott and Angus Young in 1977 CREDIT: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
AC/DC‘s Angus Young has shot down rumours that late singer Bon Scott helped to write several tracks on their seminal album ‘Back In Black’.
The band released the record, just months after Scott died at the age of 33 as a result of acute alcohol poisoning in 1980.
Frontman Brian Johnson, who took Scott’s place in the line-up, reflected on the writing of the title track during it’s 40th anniversary. “I remember ‘Back in Black’ was particularly difficult because the boys were saying, ‘Listen we want this song in memory of Bon, but we don’t want it to be sad or maudlin, we want it to be a good thing, positive song’,” he said.