Editing Back in Black (section)

==Lyrics controversy==
Five months after Bon Scott's death, AC/DC finished the work they had begun with him; they released ''Back in Black'' as a tribute to him, but his name did not appear in the writing credits. The issue of whether Scott's lyrics were used, uncredited, on the album remains an enduring topic of debate.

The Senior Vice President of [[Atlantic Records]] in London from 1968 to 1985, [[Phil Carson]], stated, "[Johnson] wrote all the lyrics. It's fucking stupid to say anything else."<ref name="Fink">{{cite book |last1=Fink |first1=Jesse |title=Bon: The Last Highway |date=2017 |publisher=Black & White Publishing |location=Edinburgh |isbn=9781785301384}}</ref>{{rp|317}}

The official credits on the album were and remain "Young/Young/Johnson". In 2022, Johnson released his autobiography, ''The Lives of Brian'', and denied Scott had written lyrics for ''Back in Black''. He stated, "The conspiracy theories are legion – usually started by people who think they know but weren't there... it was ''me'' at the end of the pen, writing every night and every morning, with only the title to work with. That's what happened. That's the truth and I really hope that settles it."<ref name="Johnson">{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Brian |title=The Lives of Brian |date=2022 |publisher=Penguin Random House |location=London |isbn=9780241446409}}</ref>{{rp|307–308}} Johnson made particular reference to writing the lyrics to "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Have a Drink on Me", "Hells Bells" and "Back in Black", and stated that he was given nothing more than a riff and a title to work with.<ref name="Johnson" />{{rp|308–315}} He also said that the title of the song "Rock 'n' Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" had come directly from a story Scott had told the rest of the band.<ref name="Johnson" />{{rp|318}}