Author’s Note

Courtesy of the author

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

This is a book about what happened when I didn’t get what I wanted, but never stopped believing, and never gave up. Luck also played its part, of course – but I truly believe that you can achieve just about anything if your dreams are urgent enough, and if you don’t just sit around, waiting for something to happen.

Others will have different memories of the events that I describe in these pages. It’s been more than forty years since the making of Back in Black, after all – and half a century since the glory days of my first band, Geordie. This is just my version of how it all went down.

Finally, I’d like to say a big thank you to Angus, Malcolm, Cliff and Phil for rolling the dice and giving me a second chance at a professional music career under some of the most difficult and tragic circumstances that any band could face. Malcolm, if there is another side, mate, when I get there I’ll be buying you and Bon a beer.

B. J. – London, 2022