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AC\/DC<\/a> are a simple band, but that simplicity is nothing to be sniffed at, as they\u2019re well and truly one of rock\u2019s best. <\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to pin down when they officially found their style, but a real turning point for them was when they made Let There Be Rock. <\/p>\n Angus and Malcolm Young both knew that they wanted to play good guitar music, but it was this album that they realised just how desperate they were to continue operating within this boundary of music, even if the music industry was moving away from it. When asked about his favourite AC\/DC album, Angus said Let There Be Rock is definitely up there.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was great because everyone else in the world was into whole other genres \u2013 there was punk music, there was new wave; it was all this other stuff that was coming out,\u201d Said Angus, \u201cAnd I just thought, \u2018This is pure magic<\/a>\u2019. And that album defined AC\/DC in my eyes. That\u2019s when I went, \u2018This is a great band\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n That cemented AC\/DC\u2019s style, as they became obsessed with creating simple but catchy riffs using just a few chords. Now, when you listen back to the band\u2019s discography, you\u2019ll hear a plethora of different riffs, neither of which imitate one another, yet they don\u2019t extend outside of that classic rock sound. They are the masters of riff-writing, and in their wake they have left a huge contingent of great music. <\/p>\n Of course, while the two guitarists have a fond love of writing great riffs, it was one of their most famous that has persistently been a thorn in the side for them. Out of all the AC\/DC riffs, \u2018Back In Black\u2019 is probably the number that people are most familiar with, but when Malcolm Young first recorded it, he did so as a frustrated musician who couldn\u2019t get the sequence out of his head and wasn\u2019t sure if it was any good or not. <\/p>\n \u201cMalcolm had the main riff for \u2018Back In Black\u2019 for about three weeks,\u201d recalled Angus Young when discussing the track, \u201cHe came in one night and said, \u2018You got your cassette here? Can I put this down? It\u2019s driving me mad. I won\u2019t be getting any sleep until I put it on cassette.\u2019 The funniest thing is he said to me, \u2018What do you think? I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s crap or not.<\/a>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Malcolm wasn\u2019t the only one who grew somewhat frustrated with the classic riff. While Angus Young has been playing the opening live for decades now, he still grows annoyed at himself for believing that he\u2019s not doing it right. Given they\u2019re a band who pride themselves on their live show, it\u2019s not a surprise that Angus wanted to get the riff right, but he feels as though it keeps escaping him.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn fact, I was never able to do it exactly the way he had it on that tape,\u201d said Angus, letting out his frustration, \u201cTo my ears, I still don\u2019t play the thing right!\u201d <\/p>\n \u2018Back In Black\u2019 remains one of AC\/DC\u2019s biggest songs, and the iconic riff is a huge part of that, but it didn\u2019t come easy, as both guitarists have become frustrated by it at some point.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Spotify) Sat 15 November 2025 9:00, UK AC\/DC are a simple band, but that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[128826,155559,77,155560,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-571849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ac-dc","9":"tag-angus-young","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-malcolm-young","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115553305243418509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}