The 10 AC/DC Songs That Are More Important Than You Think 7. “You Shook Me All Night Long” (Back in Black, 1980) Everyone knows and loves this song; it’s played everywhere. Shania Twain and Celine Dion have covered it. It’s one of AC/DC’s standbys. But who wrote it? Former Mötley Crüe manager Doug Thaler is convinced Bon Scott, who’d passed away before the album was recorded, being replaced by Brian Johnson, wrote the lyrics. In fact he told me, “You can bet your life that Bon Scott wrote the lyrics to ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’.” That’s a pretty strong statement from a guy who used to be AC/DC’s American booking agent and knew the band intimately. I look into this claim in some depth in the book and draw my own conclusions. I’m convinced Bon wrote it. In my opinion only Bon would have written a line like “She told me to come but I was already there.” Brian never matched the verve or wit of Bon in his lyrics and it’s why I think so much of AC/DC’s mid-‘80s output suffers even when the guitar work of the Youngs was as good as it ever was. But what’s also really interesting about this song in light of the recent hullabaloo over Taurus and Led Zeppelin is how much the opening guitar riff sounds similar to Head East’s “Never Been Any Reason”. I didn’t know a hell of a lot about Head East before I started working on this book, but came across “Never Been Any Reason” in the process of doing my research and was blown away when I heard it for the first time. AC/DC opened for Head East in Milwaukee in 1977. So the two bands crossed paths. More at: popmatters/post/184058-the-10-ac-dc-songs-that-are-more-important-than-you-think/P0/ Order THE YOUNGS in the US from amazon/The-Youngs-Brothers-Who-Built/dp/1250053838/ref=zg_bsnr_2331_19 and the UK from amazon/The-Youngs-Brothers-Who-Built/dp/1845029380/ref=zg_bsnr_2331_27
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