5 STORIES
1975 · 70S
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
"T.N.T." sounds like pure swaggering nonsense, but it is really Bon Scott's criminal record set to a two-chord stomp — a man who had been wr…
1979 · 70S
FREMANTLE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA
The song that got AC/DC branded as satanists is actually a complaint about their job: the endless, grinding, sleep-deprived slog of touring.…
1980 · 80S
A funeral disguised as a celebration, "Back in Black" is the sound of a band refusing to bury itself alongside its dead singer. Released jus…
1980 · 80S
The happiest, cheekiest party song in the AC/DC catalogue was written by a grieving band five months after their singer drank himself to dea…
1990 · 90S
A guitar exercise that mutated into an arena anthem, "Thunderstruck" is AC/DC's improbable second act — the sound of a band that should have…