Rock and Roll Garage

The backbone of AC/DC alongside his brother Malcolm Young for decades, Angus Young is one of the most influential guitarists of all time. His guitar riffs and solos are among the most well known in the world and continue to inspire countless musicians. By 2025, the band had released 17 studio albums filled with iconic songs, helping them sell more than 200 million records worldwide. Over the decades, Angus has spoken about the band’s discography and revealed his favorite track, as well as the guitar riff he enjoys playing the most. The AC/DC guitar riff and track Angus Young said are his favorites "It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ’n’ Roll)" (Favorite track) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A Before Angus, Brian Johnson picked "You Shook Me All Night Long" as his favorite and explained it was the first song he wrote with Malcolm and Angus, the one which changed his life. Then Angus revealed that his favorite was actually from the Bon Scott era. "I think for me it's probably the song that kicked it all, you know. I mean, I think the first big song we ever really had, especially in Australia was probably 'Long Way to The Top if Want to Rock N' Roll'. Or (like) some people say 'Long Way to the Shop if You Want a Sausage Roll' (laughs)," Angus Young told Triple M in 2014. AC/DC did not take much time recording their songs on their early albums. According to Angus this song came out of a jam that their brother and producer, George Young, recorded. "Many of our early tracks were done in one or two takes. 'Long Way To The Top' was a jam. We were just playing away and my brother George left the tape rolling. After we finished he was jumping up and down in the studio, going: 'Great, great! This is magic!' And you’re thinking, ''What’s he on about?' And he played it back and there it was, it had that magic atmosphere," Angus Young said. Bon Scott had never played the bagpipes before doing so on that song Curiously, that song has a bagpipe solo recorded by Bon Scott, who had never played that instrument before in his life. "He never played them before in his life, you know (laughs). He gets in the studio and George said: 'Why did you told me that you played?' He said: 'No, I told you I was in a Highland bagpipe band. I played drums (laughs)," Angus recalled in a TV interview. In the same conversation with Triple M, Angus told a really interesting fact about another song from the album "T.N.T". He confirmed that in "High Voltage", he played the chords A-C-D-C: "Yeah, that's right. There's that kind of thing, you know. I remember when I came up with the idea. We were in a truck on the way to Whyalla, South of Australia. I was banging away in my head, I'm chanting that thing 'High Voltage, Rock and Roll'. And I think it was Phil (Rudd) who said to me at the time, 'That's a bit corny'. I said: 'Yeah, it might be corny but it might be our next song' (laughs)," he said. At that time, besides the brothers Young and Scott, AC/DC was also formed by Mark Evans (Bass) and Phil Rudd (Drums). "Back in Black" (Favorite Riff to play) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA&pp=ygUNYmFjayBpbiBibGFjaw%3D%3D "Gee... I like 'Back in Black'. I just like it because it's a song you just hit that first chord 'bump, dadan, dadan', you know. You play a little cool lick (after that), it's just a cool thing. (When I'm playing) I go: 'Geez, this is a joy. I can stand up and try to look cool, which it's pretty tough when you're standing in there. I'm not a youngster now, (so) standing up there in the school suit (ain't easy) (laughs),"Angus Young told Triple M. Then Brian chimed in saying that when Angus play those first chords it's like "setting a grenade", because the audience goes crazy. According to him the same thing happens when they play "Thunderstruck", "You Shook Me All Night Long" and "Highway to Hell". "It's just those chords that the boys do (Angus and Malcolm). It sets this fuse off, (it's) pretty exciting to watch from stage." Malcolm and Angus were working on the song that would become "Back in Black" during their "Highway to Hell" tour, the final one before Bon Scott died. Once backstage, Malcolm played the intro of the song and asked Angus' opinion. He said: "'From the day one when I heard Mal play me the riff idea I just thought 'What a cool lick'. We always liked the swinging riffs." Angus Young continued: "(When he played I said) Mal... it sound f*cking great to me'. I said: 'If you don't like I'll have it and I will say I wrote it (laughs). The track (from the album) that I wanted (to see released the most) was 'Back in Black' itself. I was just happy hearing that" ' he told VH1. The first time Malcolm played that guitar part was on an acoustic guitar and recorded the idea on a cassette tape. In the same interview, Malcolm said the song was something completely different from what the band had wrote before. "(Those first chords were) almost funky or Soul," he said. "Back in Black" became not only AC/DC's best-selling album but one of the best-selling of all time. It sold an estimated amount of more than 50 million copies worldwide.

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