Text written by WikiBrother Gabriel Brandino , from @moshinhell
AC/DC is undoubtedly one of the bands with the greatest rock anthems, and today we're going to explain a little about the song "Hells Bells."
It's on the 1980 *Back in Black* Bon Scott , who had died months earlier from alcohol poisoning.
Because of this, brothers Angus and Malcolm Young , with the help of the new vocalist, Brian Johnson , wrote new songs and rewrote the lyrics already prepared for the album.
Brian Johnson was largely responsible for the lyrics of "Hells Bells," and he said he was experiencing writer's block until, while having coffee with the album's producers, a tropical storm hit the Bahamas, where the band was.
Then the vocalist said, "Oh, there's thunder, rain falling, coming like a hurricane, with lightning," and those words practically became the beginning of the song.
"I was literally giving a weather report," said Brian Johnson.
"I'm a moving thunder, the rain falling
I'm coming like a hurricane
My lightning bolts cross the skies
You're young, but you'll die
I won't take prisoners, I won't spare lives
No one will resist
I have my bell, I'll take you to hell
I'll get you, Satan will get you"
This is the main excerpt from the song, and where the biggest reference to the former singer is found.
This was Bon Scott's reckless life, for he was like a violent storm, leaving trails of destruction in his path, but just as the storm was developing to be enormous, suddenly it ends, like a summer storm.
"Hell's bells,
hell's bells, I'm ringing
, hell's bells, my temperature is high,
hell's bells"
Bon Scott was literally on the "Highway to Hell":
"I'll send shivers down your spine.
If you like wickedness, you're my friend.
See my white light when I appear at night.
Because if the good guys are on the left, then I'll be on the right."
With his wild laugh, glint in his eyes, and pirate tattoos adorning his muscular arms, Bon Scott reveled in his 'bad boy' reputation. As Ian Jeffery , former AC/DC tour manager, recalls, “wherever Bon went, by the end of the night he would have made ten new best friends, but he could easily have made ten new enemies.”
Coincidentally, shortly after the album's release, one of the strongest hurricanes in Atlantic history, Hurricane Allen , a category 5 storm, struck parts of the United States.
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