Out now is “Shot In The Dark” — AC/DC's lead single from the band's first new album in six years, titled Power Up, set for release on November 13th. As expected, the band's late co-founding guitarist Malcolm Young features prominently on the new set, with brother Angus Young, mining the brothers' vault of unfinished and unrecorded song ideas.
Angus spoke to Ultimate Classic Rock and shed light on the new album's songwriting process: “As soon as it starts up, straight away, it’s AC/DC. And that’s what we’ve always been about. It was pretty much written a while back. All of the tracks that we’ve got on the album were written by me and Malcolm. A lot of them were ideas we had that we knew were good AC/DC ideas at the time. But we just never got around to getting them on record. . . (Our nephew) Stevie (Young) is playing Mal’s parts, but the songs, all of the songs on there are songs that Malcolm and myself had.”
Frontman Brian Johnson added that he was clueless as to what song should be the first track released to radio: “When I first heard the album, I shot an email off to Ang and I said, ‘I tell you what, man. I’m pleased that I’m not the guy who has got to pick a single from this, because I couldn’t pick one. I suppose you’ve got to get a clear head and not be emotionally involved with all of this stuff and these (record label) guys are good at it.”
