What did you think when your song Night Prowler was cited as the inspiration for Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" killer?
Tim Ritchie, Edinburgh
MY: He just had a shirt with AC/DC
on. Your answer to that is, Did you
search his stomach for a McDonald's? If you're a wacko, you're a wacko.
AY: We had all that kind of thing with Highway To Hell - that if you play it backwards you get these satanic messages. f***ing hell, why play it backwards? It says it right up front: Highway To Hell!
BJ: Americans can turn anything on its f***ing head if they think long enough, man. The names they had for AC/DC - stuff like "Antichrist, Devil's Child".
AY: When we first went to America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on, picketing the gig. I said, "Who are they here for?" And they said, "You!"
"She ain't exactly pretty, ain't exactly small" - did you ever meet the subject of Whole Lotta Rosie?
Paul Lowe, Stockport
MY: I saw her. We were in a travel lodge in Melbourne in the heart of the red light area, and we were broke. Bon told me there were two females who were gonna cook us some food, a big fat bird and a little skinny one. It was one night I never got drunk, thank Christ. But poor old Bon, this big mama just jumped on him and had him on a single bed. The other bird's sitting there, really ugly, and I said, "I'm just going for a pee" - and I left. Bon said it took him half an hour to get out of the bed, and when he was getting over her she grabbed him again.
AY: She was keeping tabs. She said she'd slept with 28 celebs. In the morning, while Bon was feigning sleep, she leaned over to her friend and said, "Twenty-nine!"
Is it true that pigeons interfered with the recording of Hell's Bells?
Eric Yip, Derby
MY: We weren't there, but when the engineer Tony Platt was trying to record a church bell ringing in Loughborough, he spent a whole day trying to shoo these pigeons off.
Every AC/DC album sounds the same...
Sue Potter, Teignmouth
MY: Same band! That's the good thing about us. It's just loud rock'n'roll - wham, bam, thank you ma'am!
AY: You don't go to the butcher for
brain surgery.
MY: It's funny, when we first came to England in '76, the record company wanted to market us as a punk band. We told them to f*** off! You'd get these punks having a go at us, and Bon would go, "You shut up or I'll rip that f***ing safety pin out of your f***ing nose!"
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be in AC/DC, but I ended up in 3 Colours Red.
Can you fix it for me to play bass on one song?
Pete Vuckovic, London
BJ: I'm sure we can take care of it with one brown envelope. You could use me as a go-between. Twenty-five per cent.
AY: Now there's a guy who can't be bought!
Do you own any records made in the last 10 years?
Robin Pondsford, Leicester
MY: Ours!
BJ: I like Norah Jones, she's a canny little lassie.
MY: You'll regret saying that in a few years. She'll turn into a right Mariah Carey.
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