AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson released his new memoir, “The Lives Of Brian,” last week. AC/DC as a band has rarely delved into politics, with the possible exception being the title track of their 1990 album, “The Razors Edge.”
“The world was at peace again and everyone thought, ‘Ah, the Berlin Wall’s come down and it’s gonna be a party every night,'” guitarist Angus Young told Much Music at the time. “And you can see now that it’s not that way. It’s our way of saying the world’s not perfect and never will be.”
A few other AC/DC songs have tackled periods in history, including “Hail Caesar,” “Night of the Long Knives” and “This Means War,” but most of the time they’re singing about women, cars, rock, rocking and/or being in a rock band.
In a recent interview with The Telegraph, Johnson talked about his love for cars and was asked if he owned “anything electric.” “Steady, son,” Johnson joked. “You go too far, I sink, monsieur!”
The interviewer tried to explain that “electric vehicles are the future.” Johnson was having none of it.
“It’s not the future,” he said. “They’re dirty. They’re going to be dirty to get rid of, too. Electric’s where it is because politicians want to look green in front of people. It’s all nonsense. F*ck ’em.”
Johnson also revealed that he has never voted in his life. “People go, ‘Oh, well. It’s your fault then.’ I go, ‘No, no. It’s your f*cking fault for voting these cretins in,'” he said. “What would happen if both the candidates got zero votes? Revolution, that’s what would f*cking happen. And we’d get the right people in.”
Johnson explained to The Independent in 2020 why AC/DC has never aligned with a political cause. “Bollocks to politicians,” he said. “F*ck them, I want nothing to do with them.”
Recently, Johnson shot down rumors that Bon Scott wrote lyrics for the band’s multiplatinum opus, “Back In Black,” which was then contested by Bon Scott biographer, Jesse Fink, who said the claim was b*llshit.”
