AC/DC’s most regrettable song

Every musician and every band naturally has some skeletons in the closet, the AC/DC they are no exception. So when to the guitarist Angus Young during a 2020 interview he was asked to name the group’s most “deplorable” song, he didn’t have to rack his brains too much to answer.

To the Vulture reporter Devon Ivie revealed: “On our first album, “High Voltage”, we did a love song called “Love song”. It was very different from us. I didn’t know if we were trying to parody the love songs of the time, because Bon (Scott, the former singer of the Australian band who passed away in 1980, ed.) wrote the lyrics. I don’t even remember the words.”

The song was born, as Loudersound recalls, from an unreleased song entitled
“Fell in love”
composed by the band’s now deceased rhythm guitarist,
Malcolm Young
and the lead singer of
AC/DC Dave Evans
the song was then revised in the lyrics by
Bon Scott
and has a sincere romantic veneer, unlike anything else in the band’s musical catalogue
AC/DC
.

“I remember that song,” he explained again
Angus Young
to Ivie, “because the guy who worked for us at our record label told us that this was what was playing on the local radio at the time: very soft music. He thought we should put it out, because it would probably get played. I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this song to get played? We were very lucky, though, because all the radio stations that had seen us live knew it wasn’t us. So these stations started spinning the record and playing the other song, which was a cover of a blues standard called “Baby, please don’t go”. We even had a hit with the B-side! That was the only positive thing about the song.”