“Bon Scott was a bit of a gangster, and that stuff is very linked with rock music”: Saxon’s Biff Byford on how AC/DC changed his life

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The latest issue of Classic Rock, out now, is a salute to 50 years of AC/DC. To mark the occasion, we asked rock’s finest to talk about their favourite albums by the Australian icons and the celebration is kickstarted by Saxon’s Biff Byford telling us how Angus & co.’s 1976 debut High Voltage changed his life.

“Someone gave me a cassette of High Voltage, and the second I heard It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock’N’Roll) I immediately ran to the boys [in Saxon] to show it them,” said the singer. “I played it in our van for about five months straight!”