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In March 1980 Johnson received a phone call inviting him to London to audition as the new vocalist for AC / DC.

As a big AC / DC fan, he was happy to oblige.

Malcolm remembers the day: " We were all sitting there going, Where's this guy Brian?

He should have been here an hour ago.

' Oh him?

He's downstairs playing pool with the roadies ' – so we thought, well, at least he plays pool.

" When someone fetched him to meet them, Malcolm recalls that Johnson, " had tears in his eyes.

He was as sad about Bon as we were.

Anyway, we said, Do you want to give it a go?

And he said, ' I do Whole Lotta Rosie with Geordie ,' and off he went.

We went, fucking hell, this guy is cutting the mustard.

Anything else you know?

' Nutbush City Limits?

' OK, we can knock that out, and he sang that great too.

It put a little smile on our faces – for the first time since Bon.

So we just started working with him then.

" Within days, Johnson was in the band, the news being made official, amusingly enough, on 1 April.

A week after that he was sent a plane ticket to the Bahamas ( their management's idea, for tax purposes ) where he joined the Youngs, bassist Cliff Williams, and drummer Phil Rudd and Highway to Hell producer Mutt Lange in Compass Point Studios.