“Whole Lotta Rosie” by AC/DC

"Whole Lotta Rosie" is the last track on Let There Be Rock, the fourth album AC/DC made for the Australian market, which came out there in March 1977 before an international version followed that June. It's the band at full throttle: Malcolm and Angus Young's guitars chug and spray like a runaway freight train, Mark Evans and Phil Rudd drive the bottom end without ever letting up, and Bon Scott hollers over the top with a filthy grin you can hear.

Angus, Malcolm and Bon wrote it between them, and Harry Vanda and George Young produced it. It went out as a single in a handful of countries in 1977, backed with "Dog Eat Dog".

The stage version got its own moment too. A live take recorded in Glasgow on 30 April 1978 appeared on If You Want Blood You've Got It and was released as a single that October, and the song has been a fixture of the countdowns on rock radio for more than three decades.

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