Classic Rock

“WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA’AM”

2 ROCK N ROLL TRAIN

AC/DC From: Black Ice, 2008

It was a song good enough to have been on AC/DC’s all-conquering , and it’s on the last of the studio albums recorded by the line-up. also has the distinction of being one of only two songs recorded after 1981’s to remain. And in a long-running tradition of great AC/DC songs with ‘rock’n’roll’ in the title, albeit spelled in slightly different ways, is right up there with the best of them, alongside from , and others, such as and , from the years when the legendary Bon Scott fronted the band alongside their talismanic lead guitarist and eternal schoolboy Angus Young.

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