Thunderstruck by AC/DC
Thunderstruck is the opening track and lead single of AC/DC's album The Razors Edge, released in 1990. Angus Young and Malcolm Young wrote it, Bruce Fairbairn produced it, and the single came out on 10 September 1990 with Fire Your Guns on the other side. The album version runs just under five minutes. The band's own site says it cracked the seal on the 1990s with one of the best riffs of their career. The album marked a change for the band. Brian Johnson stepped aside as lyricist, so Malcolm and Angus were in charge of the songwriting completely for the first time. Chris Slade had replaced the drummer Simon Wright, who left to join Dio. The line-up on the track is Johnson on vocals, Angus Young on lead guitar, Malcolm Young on rhythm guitar, Cliff Williams on bass and Slade on drums, so it is a guitar-driven band recording and a piano version is an arrangement of it. Angus Young described how the song began in the liner notes of the 2003 reissue: it started from a little trick he had on guitar, Malcolm added a rhythm idea, and they fiddled about with it for a few months. The video was directed by David Mallet and filmed at Brixton Academy in London on 17 August 1990, with an audience wearing T-shirts that read AC/DC, I was Thunderstruck. In July 2024 the RIAA certified Thunderstruck diamond, for ten million equivalent units. It was the first AC/DC single to reach diamond.
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Thunderstruck is the opening track and lead single of AC/DC's album The Razors Edge, released in 1990. Angus Young and Malcolm Young wrote it, Bruce Fairbairn produced it, and the single came out on 10 September 1990 with Fire Your Guns on the other side. The album version runs just under five minutes. The band's own site says it cracked the seal on the 1990s with one of the best riffs of their career.
The album marked a change for the band. Brian Johnson stepped aside as lyricist, so Malcolm and Angus were in charge of the songwriting completely for the first time. Chris Slade had replaced the drummer Simon Wright, who left to join Dio. The line-up on the track is Johnson on vocals, Angus Young on lead guitar, Malcolm Young on rhythm guitar, Cliff Williams on bass and Slade on drums, so it is a guitar-driven band recording and a piano version is an arrangement of it.
Angus Young described how the song began in the liner notes of the 2003 reissue: it started from a little trick he had on guitar, Malcolm added a rhythm idea, and they fiddled about with it for a few months. The video was directed by David Mallet and filmed at Brixton Academy in London on 17 August 1990, with an audience wearing T-shirts that read AC/DC, I was Thunderstruck.
In July 2024 the RIAA certified Thunderstruck diamond, for ten million equivalent units. It was the first AC/DC single to reach diamond.