LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 21, 2019…THIRTY NINE YEARS AGO AC/DC RELEASED THE SINGLE ‘BACK IN BLACK’. THE SONG WAS THE BAND’S TRIBUTE TO FORMER LEAD SINGER BON SCOTT . ACCORDING TO HIS REPLACEMENT BRIAN JOHNSON, THE BAND ASKED HIM TO WRITE LYRICS FOR THE BACK IN BLACK RIFF. THE CRITERIA WAS ‘IT COULDN’T BE MORBID, IT HAD TO BE FOR BON AND IT HAD TO BE A CELEBRATION. THE SINGLE WAS RELEASED FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE DEATH OF BON SCOTT. THE LYRICS “FORGET THE HEARSE ‘CAUSE I NEVER DIE” THAT BON WILL LIVE ON FOREVER THROUGH HIS MUSIC. VH1 RANKS THIS #4 ON THEIR LIST OF THE 40 GREATEST METAL SONGS. HERE’S THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR BACK IN BLACK
