High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Back in Black" is a song by AC/DC, appearing as the first track on side two of their 1980 album, Back in Black. Known for its opening guitar riff, the song was AC/DC`s tribute to their former singer Bon Scott. His replacement Brian Johnson recalled to Mojo magazine in 2009 that when the band asked him to write a lyric for this song, "they said, `it can`t be morbid - it has to be for Bon and it has to be a celebration.`" He added: "I thought, `Well no pressure there, then` (laughs). I just wrote what came into my head, which at the time seemed like mumbo, jumbo. `Nine lives. Cats eyes. Abusing every one of them and running wild.` The boys got it though. They saw Bon`s life in that lyric." It peaked in the U.S. at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981 and was No. 51 on Billboard`s Top Tracks chart, which debuted in March 1981. "Back in Black" received the RIAA`s Master Ringtone Sales Award (Gold and Platinum) in 2006 and reached 2x Platinum status in 2007.