“Given the Dog a Bone” by AC/DC

"Given the Dog a Bone" rides on Back in Black, the 1980 album AC/DC made after Bon Scott's death that February, when the survivors weighed calling it quits and instead drafted Brian Johnson, formerly of Geordie. Johnson wrote it with Angus and Malcolm Young, the trio who composed the whole record, and he sings it over the brothers' guitars, Cliff Williams's bass and Phil Rudd's drums.

Robert John "Mutt" Lange, back after producing Highway to Hell, ran the seven weeks of sessions in the Bahamas that stretched from April into May, with Tony Platt engineering and Benjamin Armbrister and Jack Nuber assisting. The record was mixed at Electric Lady Studios in New York, with Brad Samuelsohn credited on the mix, and it all came wrapped in a pitch-black sleeve meant as mourning for Scott.

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