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.
Angus Young of AC/DC. CREDIT: Paul Morigi/Getty Images
AC/DC‘s Angus Young has revealed he came up with idea for the song ‘Highway To Hell’ while sitting on the toilet.
The guitarist discussed the making of the record while speaking in a new interview, saying that the premise for it came while he was having a bathroom break.
“We’d been in Miami, and we’d been in a rehearsal room and that’s what we were doing. We were putting together new tracks,” Young told Zane Lowe for Essentials Radio on Apple Music 1. “And we’d been there a couple of weeks and we were going a bit slow. And then I had come in one day with [late AC/DC co-founder and guitarist Malcolm Young] and just before we got in, I said, ’I’ve got a good idea in my head.’