AC/DC: Let There Be Rock

With all due respect to Brian Johnson, he’s absolutely no match for AC/DC's original lead singer, the prematurely deceased Bon Scott. Johnson makes everything sound like a fistfight, whereas Scott's voice was incredibly colourful and variable, he had a bluesy feel and could glide smoothly across octaves with a husky voice that was a perfect match for the bombastic rock 'n' roll, and I fully agree with the opinion of renowned music critic Jiří Černý, who in his series in Rock and Pop magazine ranked Scott among the 7 greatest rock voices in history. The only really good album Brian Johnson recorded was “Back In Black”, because it has some great songs thanks to the writing input of Scott, who co-wrote it with Angus, but didn't get to do the vocals. And it was actually Bon Scott who was the leader of all previous major AC/DC albums, whether it was “Highway To Hell”, “Powerage”, “Dirty Deeds Done Don´t Cheap”, or “High Voltage”. I'm terribly sorry that Scott couldn't hold his liquor at a reasonable level and that inhaled vomit killed him in his sleep, and if I had the divine power to give life back to five prematurely deceased rock greats, it would be John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, the brilliant bassist and songwriter of early Metallica Cliff Burton, and Bon Scott. Let the heavens be easy for them. (19.04.2022)