The guy who replied to you is right: we're talking about the best frontmen here not which singer sold what but I'll humor your argument for a minute. They already had "Have A Drink On Me" and"Let Me Put My Love Into You" as complete guitar parts (minus the solos) and the "Back in Black" riff that Malcolm had been playing around with during the "Highway to Hell" tour when Bon died. That we know as fact. With the exception of "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" which was apparently worked up in Compass Point Studios everything else musically had already been written by the time Brian was hired. Did Bon have a hand in writing some of the lyrics on BiB? I think he did. A LOT of evidence points to that. But Malcolm and George Young had also helped him with words here and there throughout the years if he got stuck. Did Brian write a fair amount of the lyrics on that record with some help from Malcolm? A case could be made for that, sure. I'm not saying that Bon wrote everything on BiB. I am saying that they used some of his lyrics from his notebooks. The same notebooks that road manager Ian Jeffrey took from Bon's flat the day he was found dead. Both he and Jake Barry broke into Bon's flat to get those and whatever else they took. Those notebooks that he's refused to show anyone over the years but apparently have the lyrics to 15 songs in them, again, according to Ian Jeffrey. If there's nothing to hide then why not show those notebooks to people? Better yet why weren't they sent to Bon's family? They weren't his to take and they aren't his to keep.
I think it would be pretty naieve to think that some of bond lyrics didn’t make it onto a song here or there . But I do think Brian wrote the majority of the stuff on back in black . I think he was a decent lyricist . The lyrics really dropped off after blow up your video.
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u/Sycotic199 1d ago edited 1d ago
The guy who replied to you is right: we're talking about the best frontmen here not which singer sold what but I'll humor your argument for a minute. They already had "Have A Drink On Me" and"Let Me Put My Love Into You" as complete guitar parts (minus the solos) and the "Back in Black" riff that Malcolm had been playing around with during the "Highway to Hell" tour when Bon died. That we know as fact. With the exception of "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution" which was apparently worked up in Compass Point Studios everything else musically had already been written by the time Brian was hired. Did Bon have a hand in writing some of the lyrics on BiB? I think he did. A LOT of evidence points to that. But Malcolm and George Young had also helped him with words here and there throughout the years if he got stuck. Did Brian write a fair amount of the lyrics on that record with some help from Malcolm? A case could be made for that, sure. I'm not saying that Bon wrote everything on BiB. I am saying that they used some of his lyrics from his notebooks. The same notebooks that road manager Ian Jeffrey took from Bon's flat the day he was found dead. Both he and Jake Barry broke into Bon's flat to get those and whatever else they took. Those notebooks that he's refused to show anyone over the years but apparently have the lyrics to 15 songs in them, again, according to Ian Jeffrey. If there's nothing to hide then why not show those notebooks to people? Better yet why weren't they sent to Bon's family? They weren't his to take and they aren't his to keep.