Angus Young was born on this day (March 31st) He turns 65 The A.C/DC album title “Back in Black” was meant as a tribute to the late Bon Scott but not everybody thought that title was a good idea. AC/DC guitarist Angus Young recalls that they really had to stick to their guns when it came to using “Back in Black” as a title for a song — and an album — that saluted their late singer Bon Scott.
“That was our way of saluting Bon’s thing. We didn’t want to drudge out a tragedy, so we figured that was the best tribute we could do. So we made it black as the mark of respect when somebody passes away. That was the idea of it. There was a lot of people, actually, at the time, when we first said what we wanted, y’know, they were all saying, ‘You can’t do that. People don’t like that. Black, it’s negative thing.’ But for us it meant something and that’s what we stuck by.”
