![]() “Bon wrote a little of the stuff, a week before he died. “F*cking hell, why play it backwards? It says it right up front: Highway To Hell!” After the Highway To Hell tour, you, Malcolm and Bon got together in London to begin working on the album that would become Back In Black. I said, ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said, ‘You!’ And we had that thing – that if you play the record backwards you get these Satanic messages.” It’s that convict background! But in America, you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on, picketing the gigs. ![]() “Christianity was never a popular movement. There, they call them Bible-thumpers, and it’s a limited species, very limited!” With religious things, I thought everywhere was like Australia. ![]() “As soon as we called the album Highway To Hell, the American record company immediately went into a panic. “That was the album that broke us in America.” But the album’s title provoked outrage among America’s so-called ‘moral majority’ – as did the cover, on which you were pictured with devil horns and a forked tail. ![]() AC/DC’s Angus Young recalls religious people reacting to “Highway to Hell”: In 1979, the band had its first million selling album with Highway To Hell. ![]()
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